Word: planning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many places the peasants clashed with police; there were hundreds of arrests and nearly a score dead. Communist agitators were among the land-grabbing peasants; but most were moved by a genuine, desperate need. Italy, though greatly recovered under Marshall Plan aid, was still far from raising enough food for her teeming, fast-breeding folk. Yet about 4,000,000 acres of land, held by a handful of wealthy owners, still lay idle or were worked by antiquated methods...
...aroused and ready to slap down the plotters whoever they might be. Leaders of the three parties answered his call for a conference. Affable and confident, his dignity regained, Gonzalez now talked not of plots but of the peso. He wanted everybody's help, he explained, on a plan to save Chile's world markets by revaluing the peso and at the same time keep living costs down by clapping on new taxes and controls...
...Well, gentlemen, have you reached an agreement?" he asked as he walked into the palace conference room. When, the answer was not definite enough, the President himself went to work. Next day the plan was ready, and party chiefs signed the paper...
...knew better than Gonzalez how painful economic reforms could be. Four months ago students, protesting over an increase in bus fares, set off a bloody riot in Santiago. But his whirlwind stump tour had won Gonzalez enough political support to put over the plan. Now his problem would be to hold down prices firmly enough for the plan to work...
Wise Founder Higginson had taken other steps to insure stability. In 1903, he set up a musicians' pension plan, the first in any U.S. orchestra. That is one reason why Boston Symphony musicians stay around and learn how to play together. Eleven men have been in the orchestra 30 years or more, another 40 men more .than 20 years...