Word: money
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shoes & Soap & Communists. Giuliano has been careful to build up a reputation as the friend of the common man. One of his earliest victims was Salvatore Abate, postmaster of Montelepre, Giuliano's native village. The peasants complained that Abate stole money orders which relatives in America sent.them. One day, Giuliano strode into the post office and coolly bumped off Postmaster Abate, oppressor of the poor. The peasants complained about the prices Giuseppe Terranova charged for flour, shoes and soap, and the interest he charged on loans. Giuliano decided to enforce price control; he led Terranova into Montelepre...
...bombed C.P. headquarters in several towns. In 1947 he and his men attacked a May Day celebration on the Pian della Ginestra, killed eight and wounded 33. His argument against land reform is: "If it comes about, I will have to capture hundreds of peasants when I need money. Now all I need to do is capture a single baron and get all I want...
Acheson yielded-reluctantly. He decided that if Congress wanted to force the money on him, he would not openly oppose it, so long as the legislation did not require him to spend it through the Nationalist government...
...which was 95% destroyed, is being sold for scrap metal to anyone that will carry it away. Youngish Toshio Takahashi, the plant manager, says softly: "It still seems like a dream to see all this. I suppose we should tear it down quickly, but that would cost too much money...
...industrially the child of the Greater East Asia War, grew artificially, by military fiat. Fifty-five-year-old Junji Hattori, manager of a Mitsubishi plant in Nagoya, put it this way: "When the military sticks its nose into civilian affairs, it makes horrible mistakes. Look at us now-no money, no initiative, no incentive. I'm afraid Nagoya's flower has bloomed and withered. Whether new buds will appear, only time will tell...