Word: setups
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spread unchallenged over 99.1% of the country's cultivated land. They hold 93% of all the peasants. Insofar as socialization of the land means giant State fan and collectives, agriculture is socialized for the first time in history. The wooden plows and peasant strips-the crazy, antiquated setup by which a household cultivated a piece of "near" land close to the hut and a piece of "far" land distant from the village-are finished. Startling are the simple figures of mechanization-collective farmers operate 474,500 tractors, 150,000 combines, 170,000 motor trucks. They include 734,000 tractor...
Colonel Francis Clark ("Pink") Harrington. WPA's head man, well knew that the Woodrum committee's inquiry was the hottest pan WPA has yet been on, that, in the Senate, Jimmy Byrnes was quietly preparing to amend the Relief setup so as to require States and localities to contribute one-third of the cost. Awaiting his turn to testify before the Woodrum committee. Colonel Harrington spent a busy week getting 200.000 cut off his rolls to bring them down to 2,600.000. He knew this could not be done without local disturbances. Sure enough, in Flint. Mich...
...making promotions and pointed out that as a result of this there was no incentive for the young instructor to do anything but publish. Three stated that the department was little more than a jumping-off point for greater heights and teaching was made, by the nature of the setup, an annoying accessory...
...Chief Executive, as parts of the President's immediate executive setup, would go the Budget Bureau (now in the Treasury Department), the Central Statistical Committee and Board (independent), National Resources Committee (independent) and Federal Employment Stabilization Office (since 1935 a name only in Commerce...
Dictator Benito Mussolini has long fancied himself a student of government. Convinced that parliamentary democracy is an anachronism, Il Duce has pondered the ideal political setup for the economic state of today. Possessed of a keen sense of history and conscious of posterity's verdict, Signor Mussolini has many times predicted that the system of government he was inaugurating in Italy would revolutionize political science and in time be a model for future political organizations. In matters of government, the Italian Dictator is much more of a thinker than his intuitive and more successful colleague, Adolf Hitler. What...