Word: po
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time in their 3½ years of rule, the Chinese Communists last week made public some of the facts & figures of their national budget. This year, said Finance Minister Po Yi-po, the Peking regime will launch its first five-year plan for industrialization-and spend 233.5 trillion people's dollars (U.S. $9.86 billion at the official Communist rate of exchange...
Raging tempests brought shipwrecks, floods and ice-bound roads to a shivering Europe last week. Rough seas isolated the romantic isle of Capri. Floods trapped peasants in the valley of the Po, and avalanches topped down the Alps...
...custom which allows a taxpayer to declare his own income for purposes of local taxation, subject to correction by a commission of his fellow citizens. The tendency is to lie and let lie. In the town of Guastalla (pop. 6,000), which sprawls peacefully along the banks of the Po River, the president of the local tax commission is a Communist. Professor Remo Salati, who wears a double-breasted suit like Communist Leader Togliatti and imitates Togliatti's manner of talking, also has access to federal tax returns in which taxpayers, in the face of stringent new tax laws...
...Khin San, 18, was beautiful and beloved by the prosperous young trader Aung Thein of Pegu. Ma Khin Than, 21, her sister, was beautiful but blind. If San were married, mused her widowed father U Po Sein, what then would become of Than? In Buddhist Burma, where polygamy is legal (although wives are usually taken one at a time), these things are more readily solved than elsewhere. Sein had a talk with Thein; Than had a talk with San. Last week, in a bridal ceremony during which, clad in a pink sarong, he sat on a carpet with his betrothed...
Harvard Best Score ab r h po a oSmith, of 4 0 2 2 0 0Robinson, rf 4 0 0 1 0 0Johnson, 1b 3 0 0 10 2 0Walsh (C) c 4 0 2 6 1 0Akillian, lf 4 1 1 2 1 0Wise, 3b 2 0 0 0 2 0Switzer 1 1 1 0 0 0Maezaks, 3b 0 0 0 0 0 0Clasby 0 0 0 0 0 0Crowley, 2b 3 0 1 0 2 1Sadowaki 1 0 0 0 0 0Krinsky, ss 2 0 0 1 1 1Donelan 0 0 1 0 0 0Scheer...