Word: planned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cominform countries have refused to give Tito the industrial materials his rural nation needs. So, said Tito in a speech, the Yugoslav five-year plan must be drastically changed: less consumer goods, more machinery. Nobody, least of all Communist Tito, expected Yugoslavs to like the new program. He said that there were two methods of persuasion: "By words," or, if that fails,"across your back...
...last week he drove through the cold rain to the cavernous National Assembly building, 20 minutes later emerged smiling. He had persuaded liberal Sun Fo, son of China's revered revolutionary leader Sun Yatsen, to become Premier in a new super war cabinet. Asked if the government planned to leave Nanking, Chiang said that no such plan was being considered. He bade Chinese remember the deathbed words of Sun Yatsen: "You shall never yield to the enemy...
...Washington has given no serious thought to the question: What next? It has no plan for stopping a repetition of the Chinese tragedy elsewhere in Asia. It has no estimate of how hard it would be to liberate China, once Communists got full control...
...cooperative plan," used by landlords to unload hundreds of apartments on tenants at fat profits, last week turned up in the hotel business. Arnold Kirkeby, who has an eleven-hotel chain, announced a plan to turn Manhattan's elegant, 492-room Hampshire House into a coop, and thereby make a pretty penny. Kirkeby's company bought Hampshire House two years ago for $3,550,000 and later borrowed $3,350,000 on it. So far it has earned him less than $700,000 before taxes, which makes Kirkeby think "we are not making much headway...
Under his plan, rooms and suites will be sold to the present tenants for anywhere from $5,100 for an unfurnished bedroom and kitchenette, studio style, to $39,000 for a three-bedroom suite with terrace. In addition, the purchasers will have to pay maintenance charges, to 150 Central Park South, Inc., ranging from $1,404 to $10,374 a year. Kirkeby Operating Corp. will continue to run the hotel, its restaurants and bars. When owners are away, the management will rent the rooms and suites to transients, turn over the money to the individual owners...