Word: tens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Democrat, was busy enlisting the support of colleagues in both parties for a Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
...this to celebrate the achievement of ten years of Bolshevist rule...
...Masses: ". . . the last ten years in Russia appear almost miraculous. . . . Millions of workers and farmers the world over look upon the Soviet Union as the advance guard in the emancipation of the mass of mankind from the exploitation of capitalism...
...Nation: "Ten years ago something new was born into the world: . . . Soviet Russia, still hated and feared by the West, is enthusiastically celebrating its tenth birthday. . . . Soviet Russia has become a land of hope, a country where millions of men and women feel a new intensity in the dull business of living . . . women have a freedom exceeding even that of America and Scandinavia; children have a primary consideration unknown elsewhere; and the whole machinery of the State is directed .toward raising the standards of living of the millions. No government in history has set out so deliberately and so successfully...
...Ten years have passed since the fall of the provisional government. But the aims of the Bolsheviki dictatorship remain as irreconcilable as ever with the fundamental life interests of Russia. Social welfare, popular enlightenment, domestic order and international security will not be assured to the Russian people as long as the Bolsheviki continue to hold Russia in the grip of their party dictatorship...