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This land distribution, for years the chief plank of National Revolutionary Party platforms, is the cornerstone of the Six-Year Plan. Flatly the Plan postulates that over the period 1934-40 Mexico's budget will be saddled with "an augmentation of 81%" to pay the cost of putting peasants on what the Government hopes will be more than subsistence farms, with irrigation. Candidly the Plan admits "a great part of Mexico's lands are rather poor. . . . The country's sparsity of population is the chief obstacle in its progress. . . . Mexico is constantly threatened by diseases characteristically tropical...
...last Plan-plank the radical new President attaches major importance. "'Our Six-Year Plan is to transform and replace Capitalism!" Candidate Cárdenas shouted in speech after speech. From the Plan he quoted many a pledge such as this: "The supply of electric energy shall be reduced in price so as to enable industrial production to live through electrical energy and not for electrical energy...
...jury awarded $2800 to Richard C. Waterman of Worcester yesterday in his suit against Harvard University for injuries received when a plank broke in the Stadium at the Harvard-Holy Cross game...
...rising was indicated last week by results of a New York Herald Tribune questionnaire. Of nearly 5,000 U. S. newspaper and farm journal editors who replied, two-thirds reported their communities solidly behind some compulsory government sys tem of old age pensions. Of many another New Deal plank, only minimum wages and maximum working hours got a bare majority of editors' eyes. Says Dr. Townsend: "Poverty once considered a natural curse which the human race was doomed to endure, can and will be abolished in the United States within the next five years, never to return...
...Greenfield. Mo., termites munched their way through the heavy plank floor of the county courthouse, continued on to other pastures. Last week when the county clerk made one of his rare visits to the record room, he found most of the record books chewed to small shreds. One fat volume was eaten to the last morsel...