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Left unsaid by the World Bank mission was the unavoidable conclusion that a "mobilization of resources" for agricultural development would mean, for the time being, a slowdown of industrialization. With a whopping trade debt of $180 million piled up as of last week, Colombia is in no position to buy more farm machinery abroad without cutting down on imports of consumer goods and industrial equipment. The same hard choice confronts other Latin American governments. From the standpoint of economic growth, what is the best buy? Tractors, TV sets, or machinery for a new electrical-equipment plant? In many cases...
...Parliament seats-to 82-for Chancellor Raab's party, an increase in Socialist seats from 73 to 74. Both parties gained at the expense of the far right and left (Communist groups polled only 4.4% of the vote), but the victory of Raab's party presaged a slowdown in Austria's headlong nationalization...
...density. The satellite's rate of slowdown and change of orbit will yield information about the high atmosphere...
Hunter & Javelin. As a result, the R.A.F. currently relies on U.S. F-86 Sabre jets for much of its first-line defense, while Britain's own planes have fallen victim of one slowdown after another. Items:
...first Five-Year Plan called for the mobilizing of 250 million peasants in collective farms by the end of 1957. Faced with a peasant upheaval, party bosses had ordered a slowdown to "consolidate" the 650,000 collectives formed so far. Communist newspapers reported that scarcely one-third of these collectives were operating, and few of these kept books so that members could be paid properly, according to the wage points their labor had earned them. In fact, they admitted, few kept books...