Word: ma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest you and your correspondent, Mr. Robert Neville, to know that Ma Heng-chang, the much-publicized labor hero, the Chinese Stakhanov of "Inside Red China" [TIME, April 9] could not stand the production pace set up by himself and his brigade, and has suffered a complete mental collapse. He became a nervous wreck, and had to be taken to a sanatorium in Manchuria last August. This was unwittingly slipped through a report in a Communist newspaper, the Yangtse Daily, published in Hankow...
Science and mathematics majors have the easiest time getting positions, Clark stated, and after them come students with MA's and PhD's. But even AB holders who didn't major in a science should save little trouble, he emphasized, once they make up their mind what sort of work they want...
Factories, mines, farms all have "model brigades" which challenge other brigades in a race of production. The Ma Heng-chang lathe brigade of machine-tool Factory No. 5 in Mukden has gained fame by reducing the time for producing a spiral roller-bearing from two hours to 15 minutes. Coalminer Lo Yung-chin of the Fengfeng pit in Huainan colliery holds the title in his class, with 254 tons dug during a one-man shift of 6½ hours...
...Home-Ma's Upstairs (Nellie Lutcher; Capitol; 45 r.p.m.). Another empty-parlor innuendo by the breathless, excitable Nellie Lutcher of Hurry On Down fame...
Kelly's mother came from an old Harvard family, and "Ma is boss in our house...