Word: masses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hillbilly Government. But surprises are unlikely. The Proconsul has summarily silenced dissenters. Sporadic stabs of opposition still come from Yugoslavia's new Partisans (mostly followers of exiled Croatian Peasant Leader Vladimir Macek), who have taken to the hills. But the mass of anti-Communist Yugoslavs are leaderless. The middle class is being systematically liquidated, since ration cards are issued only to workers (says the model Constitution: "He who does not contribute to the community may not receive from it"). Almost all businesses are confiscated by the simple device of convicting the owners of collaboration with the Germans. The Catholic...
...next evening, at dusk, Correspondent Newton was coming home in a taxi. As it turned into Bartholomeu Mitre Street, the dark mass of the sandpile loomed up in the mist, and Newton shouted a warning to the driver. As the chauffeur turned to ask what was wrong, the taxi plowed into the sandpile...
...were far from good. For the year as a whole, G.M. would still be in the red. Charlie Wilson met the press in Detroit's Statler Hotel and told why. His plain talking was characteristic, and significant, for G.M.'s troubles are the troubles of most U.S. mass production industries...
Could the auto market stand such a rise? It probably could, in the present mad scramble for cars. Despite indications that only one in every four orders is a "solid" one, there have been few rejections of cars by customers. Mass turndowns because of price rises seemed a long way off. But many another industry, where the demand was not so great, could not take this easy way out. They had Charlie Wilson's troubles, but could not use his solution...
Married. Christopher G. La Farge, 48, gangling poet-novelist (Hoxsie Sells His Acres, The Sudden Guest), grandson of Artist John, son of Architect C. Grant, brother of Author Oliver; and Violet Amory Loomis, 28; both for the second time; in Marion, Mass...