Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breach of confidence unparalleled in Soviet economic history," the new moratorium will probably not change the Soviet economic system radically. For, coupled with his announcement April 8, Khruschev also anounced that for this twenty-year period the government would not float any new loans. Since the average worker in Russia has usually been encouraged to buy bonds totalling about three weeks' worth of his annual salary, this is an economic blessing. In return for this boon he can virtually bid his present investments farewell. Yet the worker who has been buying his quota every year probably never had much hope...
Khruschev's announcements have been received by unanimous resolutions of approval from factory and shipyard workers. The press has also begun to educate the people on the necessity of the move. The First Secretary said to the workers when he announced his plan, "The capitalist worker will never believe that you are doing this of your own free will....They do not understand the soul of the Soviet People...
Neither the big businessman in Boston nor the worker in Seattle seemed to realize that only a puny portion of foreign aid is for genuine economic assistance (in the sense of "plows for Afghanistan"). In the $3.8 billion mutual security budget for the current fiscal year, for example, only $385 million is listed for such purposes. Nearly all the rest goes for military aid and "defense support" and, as such, is more defense than aid. No one said much about cutting defense. Who wants to be against strength...
...when the Second Congress of the Union of Soviet Composers convened in Moscow. Zhdanov, dead these nine years, still made his presence felt. His line was upheld by the secretary-general of the Composers' Union, Tikhon Khrennikov. a writer of popular war songs and operas praising broad-backed worker heroes. He set the keynote with an attack on "formless and harmful modernism," roasted Russia's great expatriate, Igor Stravinsky, as an example of a composer who writes for the elite, not the masses...
...emphasize her reputation as a gay social lioness. Instead, in her first TV biography, The Hostess with the Mostes', Party Girl Perle was caught in a clicheé-ridden gusher that coated with crude her life as oil and machine tools heiress, society matriarch, diplomatic envoy and social worker. Young Evelyn Rudie and veteran Shirley Booth wrestled hopelessly with Perle's hoked-up TV life: her eighth birthday party to which no one came ("I'll show them. When I grow up I'll give a party where the mostes' people in the whole world...