Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...purse strings. The dominant Moroccan political force, stoutly behind Mohammed V, is still the Istiqlal, a party whose leadership is largely intellectual, membership mostly trade unionist. But one of Mohammed's problems is how to balance its laicist modernists against the conservative religionists of the medinas and the rural areas. Chief of the Istiqlal, and probably the most popular man in Morocco after the Sultan himself, is Allal el Fassi, a fire-breathing orator who spent nine years in exile, mostly in Cairo...
Along with the physical overhaul, Chairman Barr is also gradually changing the company's basic character. Eventually, he hopes to shut down many of Ward's unprofitable rural locations, build heavily in the booming suburbs. Says Barr: "The farm population is in a major decline. Our new, bigger stores will go primarily into shopping centers in the suburbs-where the great migration has gone." And he adds: "We aim to get back in the picture with our competitors...
...reforming seven countries -at a price. Last week, adding luster to its reputation for solving social and economic problems from Iraq to Puerto Rico, A.D.L. took on two new projects: ¶ It contracted with the International Cooperation Administration and the Philippine government to expand 300 credit-lending rural coops. Organized in 1952 to free small farmers from local Chinese moneylenders, the co-op system needs expert management help. ICA will pay $368,000 to cover A.D.L.'s U.S. expenses (including a $38,300 fee), while the Philippines pay the company's overseas expenses with counterpart pesos. In return...
...offering no aid at all. Determined to include feed grains in the soil bank, farm-area Democrats defeated a plan to raise corn acreage limits 14 million acres, lower the support price 5? a bu. but require corn farmers to take soil-bank payments on some cropland. But the rural Democrats' move to include oats, barley, rye and sorghum in the soil bank was knocked down by a coalition of Republicans and city Democrats fearful of the extra cost ($500 million to $1 billion a year...
...fiftyish General Le Van Vien is one man who could well afford to regard the lifting of a few million francs' worth of uninsured gems as petty thievery. Not long ago he ruled supreme as czar of the underworld in French Indo-China. The sixth son of a rural outlaw who built a modest fortune on stolen water buffalo, Le Van Vien showed early promise of becoming a successful chip off the old block. In the early days of the Sino-Japanese War he left home to fight with Chiang Kai-shek's armies, but he soon found...