Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Behind the Iron Curtain, the war on the Roman Catholic Church continued. In a letter to the Czech State Prosecutor, which reached the press last week, Prague's Archbishop Josef Beran detailed what had happened to him since he was "interned" in his palace (TIME, JUNE...
...worth of goods per man-hour, at U.S. 1925-34 prices), dropped to .10 after the land reforms of 1918-19; it rose to .16 in 1927-28, but forced collectivization of farms in 1928-33 pulled the level down to .12. No Soviet statistics for the war years are available, but by 1947 Soviet productivity had climbed back to .14 IUs, just under the 1900 level. The U.S., on the other hand, almost tripled its man-hour output in these years, hitting a rate...
When the Communists seized Shanghai, the world wondered how its new masters would cope with the city's violent melee of crowds and commerce, swept together from east & west by winds of empire, trade and war. From Shanghai last week, TIME Correspondent Robert Doyle cabled...
...Simplified City. First of the "nonproductive" elements to be driven from the city would be its ragged, half-starved refugees. Through three years of civil war they had fled before the Red tide, which had finally caught up with them. They had funneled into the city to set up dirty, mat-shed colonies. They had lived by begging or scratching in garbage piles. Already, said Communist authorities, 400,000 refugees had left the city-half "voluntarily," the remainder "sent." Still to go were more than 1,000,000 refugee landowners, "loafers" or petty black-marketeers, paupers, unemployed factory hands...
...another speech, on the anniversary of V-J day, Mayor Chen Yi revealed a striking historical fact, hitherto known only to some of the more eager Communist scholars. Said he: "On this day, four years ago, Soviet Russia defeated Japan and brought the second World War to a conclusion...