Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the last convict ship reached New South Wales, the colony had received 83,290 prisoners. Each convict had to work out his stretch at something close to slave labor, either on a private farm or on state works. Brutality drove many to escape and outlawry, so the old petty larcenist became the new bushranger-a combination of rustler and highwayman. In the public mind, he also lost his criminal record and became one who "robbed the rich and helped the poor, and never harmed a lady...
...organization of the neo-fascist movement began in 1949 with the formation of the Sozialistische Reichspartei in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein. This section is mainly agricultural, and suffered comparatively little during the war. Furthermore, under Hitler it received many benefits such as army and slave labor. The citizens looked back on the days of Hitler, with the stirring military parades and the official praise of farmers as the backbone of Aryan Germany, with more regret for their passing than loathing of their horrors...
...army and in prisons, men were frequently sent to the "triangles" (the upright frame upon which the offender was spread-eagled for flogging) for insubordination. Flogging was the punishment decreed 1) in 1863 for garroters and robbery with violence, 2) in 1898 for homosexuality, 3) in 1912 for white-slave trafficking, 4) in 1916 for armed robbery...
...labor boss, Lui Ning-i, listing some-doubtless not all-of the Chinese projects on which Russian experts have been working: the Peking-Hankow, Canton-Hankow, Chengtu-Chungking and Tienshui-Lanchow railways; the Huai River conservation plan (employing some 5,000,000 workers, many of them slave laborers); the Chinkiang water detention basin, the new Tangku harbor in Tientsin. According to best estimates, there are 60,000 Russians "helping out" in China...
China's people could ponder another evidence of Big Brother's presence last week. All over the land little boxes were going up in the streets. They are called Denunciation Boxes. Chinese were invited to fill them with unsigned notes that could send neighbors to death or slave labor camps...