Word: poorer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...officer caste, drawn traditionally from the middle class and poorer gentility, splurges fortunes on such status symbols as Caracas' $10 million officers' club, the marble-and-gilt Circulo de las Fuerzas Armadas. Early retirement is a huge drain on treasuries. Argentina has 20,000 retired officers v. 10,000 on active duty; Brazil's out-to-pasture list includes 1,500 generals and 38 field marshals...
...That while the U.S. and Europe increasingly enjoy the good life, many nations outside the Communist bloc are getting more populous and relatively poorer. ¶That the U.S. should do no less about it, but that Europe should do more. ¶That someone ought to provide focus, plans, and machinery for all the scattered remedies that so far have not been extensive enough, or inspiringly imaginative, or outstandingly successful...
...economy of Senegal, which produces some of the most beautiful women and best fighting men in Africa, is almost wholly dependent on peanuts, which France buys at 25% over world prices. Neighboring Sudan is even poorer. But the Federation of Mali, said its first Premier, Modibo Keita, 44, supports "the principle of independence as soon as possible...
...jargon phrase for this is "the revolution of expectations," and it has resulted everywhere in solutions that do not solve. Poorer nations simply eat more, and either cut down on their agricultural exports or import food. Asia, excluding Red China, now imports about 10 million tons of grain a year. But the result is less foreign exchange in the coffers of most Asian nations, and less capital for needed economic development...
...Greece, where the work of a U.S. agricultural advisory mission has presented the country with an unsalable surplus of wheat, rice and tobacco. If the gap is not to widen, if undernourished peoples are ever to achieve Western standards, there must be a process of economic development inside the poorer countries so that increased industrialization will create a market for increased farm production...