Word: slaves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...China has made substantial material progress, but only by using armies of slave laborers. One huge dam visited by Mme. Pandit was being built by 2,000,000 peasant conscripts...
...deputy who will only say that he is acting under your orders and put on a pained expression Pained expressions take all the fun out of things, especially when not terribly sincere. And, after all, why should your deputies have all the fun, rocking and diving, while you slave away at your desk over letters like this? It may be possible for me to invite some friends and we can have a party (refreshments rocking diving...
Yukon a far broader boom than the Klondike gold rush. The new road to Hay River in the Northwest Territories is an all-weather highway over which truckloads of fresh and frozen trout and whitefish from Great Slave Lake are driven , daily on their way to Chicago and New York, as part of a $2,500,000 fishing industry. Gold at Dawson and Yellowknife, uranium at Port Radium, base metals at Mayo have all built up thriving settlements. Great lead-zinc-silver deposits, lately found at Pine Point, less than 60 miles from the Hay River road, may bring...
There have been many books about disillusioned Communists, some of them excellent, most of them stereotyped. Hardly a week passes without its book about Soviet slave camps. But El Campesino's story, direct, terse and without presumptions to literary grace, has the persuasiveness of crushing truth. Though it has none of the art of Darkness at Noon, it belongs beside Koestler's book on the shelf set aside for the literature of human shame...
...time he was shut up in Lubianka prison and put through various physical and psychological "persuasions" to sign a phony confession of spying for the British and Americans. He refused, and then began four years of prison camps in Siberia and Turkestan. His brief descriptions of Lubianka, the slave camps and the tortures that were devised to break him are set down in the passionless reporting of a recorder who has known terror so well that it has become conventional...