Word: polisher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This kind of crazy mixed-up Marxist talk came last week from Polish Economist Jan Danecki. Added another Polish economist, writing in Warsaw's Express Wieczorny: "Certainly Socialism [i.e., Communism] will not tumble down if haberdashery, carpet slippers, little screws and tubes are manufactured by private concerns. Besides, they will make them properly, because if the goods are bad they cannot sell them...
...Poland's confused state, nothing is sure except that the old-style Communism does not work. Party Secretary Wladyslaw Gomulka's economic planners no longer ask "Is it orthodox Marxism?" but "Will it work?" To get the sagging Polish economy working, they are encouraging many forms of small-scale capitalism, decentralizing state-owned industry, and letting independent peasant cooperatives take over the thousands of abandoned collective farms...
...Announced, in line with President Eisenhower's determination to help Poland's new government maintain its independence from Russian domination, that at U.S. invitation Warsaw has agreed to send a Polish mission to economic talks in Washington in the near future. Chief item likely to be negotiated: a request by the hard-pressed Gomulka government for a big (at least $100 million) loan to finance the purchase of U.S. surplus agricultural products, farm and mining machinery, fertilizers...
...Polish-born pianist Artur Rubinstein, 68, down south in Birmingham for a concert, looked back on decades of U.S. tours, hailed the cultural progress of the nation's hinterland, parts of which were once dismissed by H. L. Mencken as "the Sahara of the bozarts." Rubinstein sees the U.S. as a sprawling oasis: "In the past 25 years this country has made more advances than some places in Europe have made in 250 years. Small towns throughout America are more receptive to fine music than old cities in France like Lyon, Marseille and Bordeaux...
...four years as an art movie theatre playing films on a repertory basis the Brattle has played foreign films from almost every country which has a film industry of any size--German, French, Swedish, Italian, Russian, Mexican, British, Polish--and a great many American re-issues which have some status as film classics or which happen to please the management or which fill gaps in a program which becomes increasingly difficult to schedule with the current "product shortage" yawning emptily before art theatres throughout the country...