Word: scales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...period of the New Economic Policy (1921-28) characterized by limited revival of small-scale free enterprise in Russia; the period of the Popular Front (1935-39); the period of wartime collaboration...
There is severe inflation in Japan, and a black market. Communist troublemaking in the unions forced MacArthur to squelch a general strike, later a communications strike. There is not enough shipping, and no visible way of getting large-scale shipbuilding started...
...their part, moderate Zionists wanted to make a settlement which would let them go back to the job of building Israel, free of Arab attacks. Without outside help on a lavish scale, they could not support the present war budget of $48 million a year, or spare workers from field and factory for front-line duty...
Under U.N. supervision last week, U.S.-occupied South Korea had its first free general election in its 4,000-year history. Communist threats of disruptive violence did not materialize on the scale expected; only 35 people were killed in election disorders. Nor did the Communist boycott significantly diminish the total vote; 92% of South Korea's eight million registered voters cast ballots. But in one forecast, pre-election dopesters were proved right. Tenacious, septuagenarian Syngman Rhee was confirmed as Korea's No. 1 political leader and its probable new chief of state...
This is the setting that Jean Malaquais has chosen for his huge and exciting novel about "shamed and sunken France." World Without Visa is a novel on the grand scale, packed with enough action to fill a dozen less ambitious books, bursting with dramatic and melodramatic climaxes, written and overwritten from a gnawing sense of social urgency - a desperate, ear-splitting wail of grief at what human life has become in the 20th Century. Niggling critics will find many faults in it, and the faults are there; but it is nonetheless a book that communicates, as no other...