Word: nationalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their drive to herd China's 500 million peasants into military-style "people's communes" and in their boundless enthusiasm for economic "shock programs," the Communists have come close to negating their nation's greatest economic asset-its teeming manpower...
...labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled up last year, think what's going to happen if they achieve these goals. The chaos that...
...pattern of division began to take form last week in Cuba's new government. On one hand, a pair of responsible moderates, President Manuel Urrutia and Premier Jose Miró Cardona, struggled with the nation's immediate problems, notably restless labor. On the other, Fidel Castro (who hand-picked Urrutia and Miró Cardona) moved uncoordinatedly toward a nationalist, leftist social program...
...represent a third of the total. But stereo disks are not likely to make the old monophonic disks entirely obsolete, since a well-engineered old-style LP sounds fine when played on stereo. While the sale of monophonic equipment has dwindled to almost nothing, many of the nation's stereo owners have continued buying monophonic records...
Hechinger, onetime education editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and now associate publisher of the Bridgeport Sunday Herald, traces the history and analyzes the present state of U.S. and Soviet schools in a manner that might unsettle educationists of either nation. Particularly fascinating is the author's account of the rise, and the abrupt, inglorious fall of progressive education in the U.S.S.R. When the Bolsheviks took over in 1917, Hechinger reports, they inherited a system of schools, serving only the children of the upper classes, that was as good as any other in Europe. But in a period...