Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago, to dissipate the blue funk into which collectivization had thrown the peasantry, each farm worker was granted his own small private piece of land on which he might raise a few cows, pigs, fruit, vegetables. The decree provided that the garden plots must adjoin the owner'...
Last May Commissar Benediktov started out to get these counter-revolutionary individualists. Thousands of commissioners, many of whom could not tell a hawk from a handsaw, are now swarming over the U. S. S. R., measuring each peasant garden. Abuses, declared Benediktov, will be rectified. All far-from-home plots...
"Since the tax investigation has commenced I have been informed that perhaps our bookkeeping systems have not kept pace with the growth of the business and it may be that some taxes are owing to the Government. . . . I have assured the Government that any taxes which are rightfully due it...
Despite Publisher Annenberg's assurances, the Government was in no mood to settle out of court. If found guilty, Moe Annenberg might spend the rest of his life in prison.* This week a second Grand Jury will resume an interrupted inquiry to determine whether the Annenberg racing news services...
All of a sudden the magazine was taken up by a bunch of sporting socialites and began going great guns. Oliver Davis ("Three Dagger") Keep, who had been promotion manager of The Condé Nast Publications Inc., bought control and, later joined by a rich college (Williams) friend named Archbold...