Word: redness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skill (up to $2 an hour now), sold the communal homes to members, let each family choose its own food, source of income, way of life. The new corporation, despite the Depression, promptly raised production of farm products, furniture and handmade textiles (1958 sales: $10 million). Profits replaced red ink the first year, rose to levels ($268,000 in 1958) that provided plow-back capital and paid dividends. Mechanic George Foerstner, who designed the colony's beer coolers, began making refrigerators and home freezers, and bought radio-TV time to sell the wares. By 1950, when his business...
...Red China, beset by internal troubles, last week made plain its determination to cause friction and perhaps war all along its southern borders. That intent became unmistakable even to India. The long unrealistic era in which the two largest nations on earth coexisted peaceably because one of them saw no evil or heard no evil seemed at last to be ending...
Rising in India's lower house of Parliament, Jawaharlal Nehru, 69, gripped the teakwood Prime Minister's bench and described, in blunt language he had never used before, the "continuing aggression" of Red China's troops against India's northern borders. The frontier incidents were clearly a Chinese testing of India's willingness to defend itself. "We must not become alarmist and panicky and take wrong actions," cautioned the ever-cautious and neutralist Nehru, but then he added ringingly that "there is no alternative to us but to defend our borders and our integrity." M.P.s...
...Suffering People." India's new posture stiffened spines throughout Southeast Asia. In Burma the government signed a seven-year treaty with the autonomous and Chinese-infiltrated Shan and Kachin states of Burma that would for the first time put the protection of their borders with Red China under army control. The U.S. promised and prepared to deliver airborne aid to the threatened kingdom of Laos (see below). Next week Nehru will confer with Pakistan's strongman, General Mohammed Ayub Khan, who is urging a united defense of the subcontinent. At last Indians are beginning to see China...
...making. The Dalai Lama, sitting in exile in Mussoorie, had been warned to create no embarrassment for India. But he has been increasingly upset by news he has heard from Tibetan refugees making their way to safety in India. They report that thousands of monks have been placed in Red labor camps, that the vast Tibetan monasteries have been left in the hands of a few quislings, and perhaps 80,000 Tibetans have been killed by the Chinese...