Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Replying that he had accurately quoted the Soviet Premier, Humphrey said: "Mr. Khrushchev appears particularly sensitive, and understandably so, to having some of his remarks about Red China's communes publicized...
With good Marxist resolutions and a holiday cease-fire on the Quemoy "front," Red China last week marked the beginning of a new lunar year-the Year of the Pig. To Chinese, the pig is a symbol of prosperity. Given last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times...
...Sale. Unlike many past shortages in Red China, these are not the result of a Spartan decision to export agricultural products in order to purchase machinery abroad. In the past few months Peking's trade offensive in Southeast Asia-which seriously worried the Japanese-has begun to falter badly. Fortnight ago Mao's government, despite its need for foreign exchange, canceled a contract to supply British firms with several thousand tons of cotton and cotton waste, and this breach of contract will jeopardize future negotiations...
Last fall Red China was dumping cement in Hong Kong at uneconomic prices in an effort to drive Japanese producers out of the market; today Red Chinese cement cannot be bought in Southeast Asia at any price. Indonesia is told that it will get its promised 200,000 tons of rice this year not from China but through Russia, and that it must pay $8.40 a ton more for it. Everywhere Chinese Communist commercial agents are turning away orders for products that require extensive hand labor...
...Schroeder, and their relationship was rather undefined. But hesitation was foreign to him, and when he saw something he wanted he knew it. Moving repeatedly and swiftly through the cards, he came to the only one that would really do. It was executed in the form of a tasteful, red heart, the whole trimmed in fine doily. Inside was the legend...