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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the past half century the Bullard family has endowed several departments and institutions of the University, especially the Medical School. There is a Bullard Professorship of Neuropathology at the Medical School, which was established by Louisa Norton Bullard and her children in memory of her husband, William Story Bullard, a Boston merchant prominent in the East India trade...
From these undisputed facts, Dulles proceeded to the hotly disputed question of comparative growth rates. Since 1950, he said, Russia's G.N.P. has been expanding at a rate of 7% a year-"at least twice" the rate of about 3% for the U.S. in the past six or seven years. Dulles estimated that Russia will continue to grow through 1965 at a rate of 6% a year. Thus, even if the U.S. G.N.P. increase rises to "our best postwar rate" of 3½% to 4%, Dulles predicted that by 1970 Russia's output will...
...workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments. So successful is Hong Kong as a garment center that U.S. manufacturers and labor unions now want restrictions on cotton exports...
...opposition to low-priced Japanese cotton imports. When the Japanese were forced to diversify and impose voluntary quotas, many big U.S. department-and variety-store buyers took their business to Hong Kong. The British colony's factories and sweatshops have tripled to an estimated 500 in the past four years, boosted the number of workers from 4,000 to 50,000. To compete in the cut throat world textile market, the Hong Kong garmentmakers' chief weapon has been cheap labor; the average daily wage is $1.77 for a ten-to twelve-hour...
...fields, the number of rows in each field, how many trees stand in each row. Such writing is not merely capricious; the looming fact of the plantation's physical existence is established-for whatever readers remain. Lost among the bananas and a time sequence that flickers eerily through past, present and future is a murder. It is dealt with in half a paragraph...