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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In standard of living, Formosans are second only to Japan in the Far East. Model land reforms have helped raise agricultural production to 50% above prewar levels; the rice crop measured 1,894,000 metric tons last year, 680,500 tons over the 1949 harvest; canned-pineapple production has sextupled...
These are impressive figures, but there are shortcomings. The U.S. still underwrites an annual trade deficit that has ranged from $70 to $90 million, and U.S. advisers fear that this will continue until the Nationalist government provides new incentives for investment in export industries. Private U.S. investors have put only...
Chou En-lai's note had fulminated in the Communist manner against the "sinister" forces "searching for "every chance to disrupt the great friendship between India and China." Unimpressed, Nehru coldly pointed out that "the cause of the recent troubles is action taken from your side of the border...
At a dinner in Vientiane, Premier Phoui Sananikone fervently repeated that his country was determined to stay out of the cold war, and Hammarskjold pointedly replied that "all Laos' friends will rejoice in that statement." Five days later, having thus made it clear that he was not on hand...
Free Labor. In Marxist fashion, Touré has clamped tight central controls on everything in sight. There is a government foreign-trade monopoly, and the state-run cooperatives, which buy farmers' products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are...