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...riches is going into a huge system of social-and economic welfare enterprises. Schools, hospitals, roads and public works have sprung up everywhere. Rows of spanking new houses in cheerful pink, yellow and chartreuse have arisen to take the place of drab thatched huts. Massive U.S.-built earth movers plow into virgin forest, making way for new highways. A new $2,000,000 mosque, the first in Islam to boast an elevator, stands in the heart of Brunei town, the nation's capital (and only) city...
...including exports) of nearly $50 billion. The outflow of private direct investment reached $1.6 billion last year, more than double the 1955 figure, and U.S. investment in foreign stocks and bonds totaled another $1.2 billion. Private enterprise has invested $30 billion abroad to date, not including profits that firms plow back abroad each year...
...ties led inevitably to a further disregard of their importance, and illicit love affairs bloomed on every side. Naturally enough, this interfered considerably with the work of the state, what with intra-factory jealousies and unexpected pregnancies. Country girls, seeking a better mate than the local lout behind the plow, began flocking to the cities. Party workers in the backwoods were instructed to "explain to young women that it is incorrect to seek mates only among urban youth." In the China Youth magazine, a schoolteacher wrote an article entitled "Do Not Make Love to Middle School Students Who Are Still...
...House groups often admit to a profit, but don't consider this a product of overcharging. They merely "plow back" the money into technical equipment or save it for the next production. Here perhaps the Ford grants for the Houses could be used to advantage. It would not be in the nature of a wasteful subsidy for the Ford funds to cover some of the primary expenditures of House theatricals, thus abating the need both for charging professional prices for amateur production and for selecting a play merely on grounds of potential financial success...
...beginning of Soviet Russia's climb from a plow-horse to a horsepower economy, the Five-Year Plan, or Piatiletka, was a dramatic slogan as well as an effective method of primitive state planning. But when the sixth Piatiletka arrived last year, the word had lost its power for millions of Russian workers, case-hardened by 30 years of ceaseless urging to achieve ever higher production norms. Last week the Soviet leaders indicated that they were ready to drop the old Piatiletki for a more relaxed method of planning and executing the progress of their national economy...