Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algiers' dark, conspiratorial bistros, the talk these days is more likely to be about "les affaires" than assassinations. De Gaulle has made the army his chief economic arm in raising Moslem living standards, and fat army contracts for roads and schools-plus Saharan oil investments-have spread a new prosperity across Algeria...
...small and medium-sized factories in hard-hit Barcelona announced a "suspension of payments," a legal state just this side of actual bankruptcy that defers debt payments and allows a company to lay off help (otherwise forbidden by law). In a land where newspapers print no unpleasant news, word spread that the big (3,000 employees) Euskalduna shipyard and the Basconia steel mill in Bilbao were also about to lay off their work forces, and so was Madrid's leading steel company...
...workers are often brutally beaten by farm superintendents and that most of them live in hideous squalor. They get sacks to wear in the fields and are fed cold porridge, occasionally with scraps of meat. At night workers are herded into rude shacks to sleep on filthy gunny sacks spread on cement floors. In some cases workers who die on the job are buried, without reports being made either to a doctor or police. "Africans sent to the farms firmly believe they have been 'sold' to farmers," Carlson charged. "Police and labor officials in fact use the word...
...full import of Fidel Castro's dream of a "classless" Cuba began sinking in last week, a wave of mass meetings and angry proclamations swept the island. The immediate cause of the anger was Castro's first spread-the-wealth scheme: his land-reform bill (TIME, June 1) that became law last week. The result was the return of political debate after a hiatus of five months, and the sudden birth of outspoken opposition to the still numerically strong supporters of Castro...
...teach democracy and science in the sense of indoctrination?" Certainly this is a valid point; American youth learn the democratic method through student government and the democratic hagiography in their history courses. Democracy, however, is an ideology almost universally approved in the United States, and its wide-spread acceptance leads many to over look the fact that education about democracy has been replaced by indoctrination in democracy...