Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...longer speeches, however, trip him up. He fails to convey all the sense, the rhythm, and the grandeur. He has not yet wholly mastered the difficult art of breathing properly, so that he often pauses at the end of a line when the thought demands that he go right on to the next...
Ruth Attaway, as Serena, provides one of the most moving and memorable moments in the film. She does not actually sing "My Man is Gone Now,'" but she acts the hell out of it, and frankly it is often hard to believe that she isn't singing, the voice fits her so well...
...standard, and one-third of the castings for electric motors were worthless. A whole shipment of electric generators had to be rebuilt at the factory because of "faulty cores." Canned goods, sometimes turned out by several different communes to make up a single order, varied widely in quality, were often bad. After eating a shipment of canned foods from their Chinese comrades, nearly 4,000 East Germans became ill, and some died...
That is bad enough business, but the Red Chinese further infuriated Western businessmen with high-handed, independent business practices. Businessmen ordering goods were forced to undergo long,, pompous lectures on Marxism. Prices and offers changed from day to day at Peking's whim, and officials often tried to play one trader off against another. A British businessman who went to Canton to buy 500 tons of vegetable oil was told it was not available. Then he was awakened at 4 a.m., told that Peking had decided to give him the oil. The next day Chinese authorities sold half...
...comes to taking goods in return, the Chinese are far more efficient. As a shipment of 4,500 tons of South American cotton arrived at a Chinese port recently, U.S.-trained Chinese inspectors swarmed over it, carefully grading each" bale. The Chinese are tough and unbending in trade negotiations, often cancel contracts for no obvious reason. Said a Frenchman who packed his bags and returned home from Red China without a franc's worth of trade: "The atmosphere is decidedly bad for doing business...