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...December he was able to announce that "more than 60% of peasant families" were in cooperatives-an astonishing increase of 53.1 million peasant families in six months. Mao and his subordinate leaders presented other evidence of a widespread consolidation of Communist power and, elated by their success, announced a speedup in their socialization programs. Plans which were to have been accomplished in ten or 15 years were cut to five years. "The socialist revolution, in the main," said Mao, "could be completed on a national scale within about three more years...
...Chinese Countryside," Mao Tse-tung last week asserted that some 70 million farm families-more than two-thirds of all peasant households-have now been collectivized. He told a party meeting in Peking that Red China's Socialist revolution "has rolled ahead so fast" since he ordered a speedup last summer that he now thinks it can be basically achieved for China's 585 million in about three more years. Apparently Mao believes his great purge of 1950-51, in which perhaps as many as 15 million died, so effectively destroyed the Chinese will to resist that...
...Rise of Mass Marketeers. But credit was not the only power behind the boom. In 1955 businessmen saw the speedup of a revolution in U.S. merchandising methods as retailers learned to pare selling costs, thus get more goods to more customers...
...first B-52 out of Wichita early next year, build up to a rate of 2½ planes a week. Now it will get Wichita in high gear sooner, and build up to about 3 1/3 planes every week. Even so, it will still be months before the speedup shows in the number of B-52s in service because of the inevitable lead-time between order and delivery on everything from raw materials to electronic equipment. Said a Boeing engineer: "A lot of heavy forgings go into a B-52, and forging presses still aren't a dime...
...week's end, Washington buzzed with reports of a speedup in production of Boeing's four-jet KC-135 tanker and a pair of new supersonic fighters, McDonnell's F101 and Lockheed's 1,000-m.p.h. F-104, still in the test-flying stage. For the B-52 program alone, the acceleration would probably increase the Air Force budget for fiscal 1955-56 somewhere between $300 and $400 million...