Word: spectacularly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proud total, 350,000 Soviet tractors rumbling out over Russian harvest fields, was announced by Moscow last week as Communists were summoned at the double to win for Joseph Stalin a spectacular, unexpected "battle of the grain." Russia's potent Five-Year-Plan chiefs reckoned without a sudden heat wave which shot thermometers up to phenomenal highs all over the southern Soviet provinces. Result: winter and spring grain ripened simultaneously instead of one after the other, the harvest rush was doubled. Plan chiefs believed, however, that they had the situation well in hand, predicted that this year it will...
Both these organizations are Fascism's spectacular answer to widely-voiced democratic criticisms that under dictatorships the masses do not fare well. Both were launched to replace the highly developed social and recreation programs of the now outlawed German and Italian Leftist labor unions. As astute Propaganda Minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels once said: "A government which really wants to penetrate the people must never leave the people to themselves...
...movements of a pigeon deprived of thiamin "consist in turning cart wheels and aimless floppings as if freshly decapitated." A human being, similarly starved of this nutritional necessity, may die of sudden heart failure. Less spectacular effects of B2 deficiency are, according to investigators, degeneration of the nervous system, enlargement of the heart, atrophy of muscles, loss of appetite, atony of the colon, stomach ulcers, loss of weight, failure to grow...
Last week's Saskatchewan elections proved, however, that Premier Aberhart's spectacular move to add a second province to "Social Credit's" domains had been eminently unsuccessful. Having elected a Liberal government for 28 of its 33 years of existence, the provincial electorate gave its Liberal Government a new five-year lease of life. Social Credit candidates were given only a thin opening wedge in the Provincial Parliament...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...