Word: plows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cadres supervising the slave labor always use high-sounding, almost loving words, to describe their charges. Those who die of exposure and overwork are eulogized as "dead heroes." On the "mechanized farms" a few Soviet tractors are used, but most of the work is done with primitive plows manned by groups of six pulling on plow ropes. When the slave laborers fail to fulfill their "norms," they are obliged to conduct "selfcriticism" sessions. Risings in these remote camps have been frequent. Mobile units of slave laborers have been reported as far distant as Poland and Czechoslovakia...
...Luckman generally charge clients either a straight fee or a percentage of cost, ranging from 4.5% (for an air base) to 8% (for a hospital). Despite the booming business. Pereira and Luckman take out much less than the $100,000-a-year Luckman got as president of Pepsodent. They plow back the bulk of the profits into the business. Though he is busier than ever, Luckman still finds time to serve on the boards of five Los Angeles civic groups. He wakes at 5 a.m. in the Bel Air mansion he bought from Hotelman Conrad Hilton (who recently commissioned Pereira...
...auctioneer knocks down Dale Peterson's cattle, hogs and plow at fractional prices, and the camera swings away from Corning. It swings expertly for the next 45 minutes through farms and storage bins around the nation, through the giant stockpiles of grain stored in Liberty ships, finally catches youngsters in Washington singing America the Beautiful. Then it comes back to the grim visage of Secretary Benson, who has indeed been taking an occasional note...
...networks that employ some 315,000 Hong Kong men and women. At first a hotel owner hesitated before renovating a wing or papering over the flaked walls of a grand ballroom, wondering whether there would be time to amortize his investment. A prospering Chinese plastics maker deliberated whether to plow back his profits into his business or to save the cash for a future flight. But increasingly, the decision has been to take the risk. New office buildings, new houses rise. As a depository for the wealth of insecure rich men, Hong Kong ranks high-a steady flow of funds...
October. Ezra Taft Benson will propose a new solution to the farm problem: plow under every third farmer. The CRIMSON will go to Wellesley to conduct the Miss Radcliffe contest. The Government and Economics departments will cancel all courses since their professors are working for "Democracy...