Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First there was the wholesale liquidation of peasants in the process of collectivization of the land. Now it is revealed that collectivization did not render the peasant secure; he is still being purged. No wonder, as the new decree reveals, that 'this artificially creates discontent and wrath and makes many collective farmers uncertain of their position.' No wonder, despite all the discriminations against them, that individual farmers are described as having advantages over many collective farmers. Henceforth it is ordered that members of the collectives must receive at least 60% of the money income of the enterprise...
...wonder if the liberty is done...
...wonder-We don't know-We're asking...
...reconsidered. Last year a joint committee of U. S. and Philippine experts examined the whole question of how independence would affect the islands. Publication of the committee's findings is due next month, but meanwhile, Japanese doings in China have given Filipinos a new reason to wonder what may become of them without U. S. protection. Last January Franklin Delano Roosevelt proposed a plan whereby Philippine trade preferences would be reduced more gradually, ending in 1960 instead of 1946. Last month High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt broadcast his view that Philippine independence be postponed indefinitely. Since independence has been...
...bits of unfamiliar industrial history sandwiched between slightly sophomoric tributes to vanished vice. Author Holbrook's loggers get into so many fights, frequent so many bawdy houses, sing so many logger songs and swear so many round oaths (of which Holy Old Mackinaw is one) that readers may wonder when they found time to cut down all those trees...