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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landlord Mentality." The prestige of each Communist cadre was made dependent on the number of landlords sent to the gallows. But in the overpopulated delta, the richest landowners had no more than two or three acres and a couple of water buffaloes. Even one-acre landlords became hard to find, and the cadres coined a new phrase-"landlord mentality." A peasant married to a girl whose ancestors had owned a dozen cows had landlord mentality. In a final purge last fall, even this stratagem was exhausted, and old cadres resorted to accusing new cadres of "landlordism." Jails became filled with...
...from the manner of Haiti's birth. While revolution tore France in 1791, half a million black slaves rose against France's colonial rule. In two months they massacred more than 2,000 whites, razed more than 1,000 plantations. Haiti never recovered. The world's richest colony before the revolution, it is now a poorhouse. Only 23,470 Haitians out of 3,500,000 engage in middle-class occupations. As the economy strangled, politics turned into a business venture, with revolution the key to the treasury...
Pinched for cash, the world's richest nation has often come off second best. At last year's fair in Bogota, Colombia, the U.S. spent less than $500,000 (v. $1,500,000 for the joint Czech-East German pavilion), had to resort to an unimpressive display of photographs to picture the abundant U.S. in action. But fair planners in the Department of Commerce have learned to stretch their dollars by leaning heavily on private business to contribute products, exhibits and top executives to the trade missions at the fairs. They have also learned that commonplace U.S. gadgets...
...field hands seek work on a puny 132,000 acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...
...West German government is one of the world's richest property holders. Though it is committed to free enterprise, it controls 314 German industrial companies worth well over $1 billion, which it inherited from the Kaisers and the Nazis. These control 90% of the nation's lignite mining, 50% of its. iron-ore mining, 20% of its hard-coal mining plus much of its production of aluminum (70%), lead (42%), zinc (28%), oil (18%) and steel (5%). The state also controls 100% of the German railway (total employment: 500,000) and telegraph systems...