Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crop in ground this winter. Thousands of collective farms, no longer under police supervision, have been abandoned, their equipment and animals stolen as farmers hasten to rebuild their own farms. In a country which normally imports up to 1,500,000 tons of grain a year, and where the worker spends 90% of his wages on food, a food crisis threatens. The situation is worst in the western lands, formerly German, where the Polish farmers brought from the east have never felt at home, and the collectives, built around the old Junker estates, have never prospered despite credits...
Nominated to succeed Clare Luce as U.S. Ambassador to Italy was San Francisco's James David Zellerbach, 64, board chairman of the $450 million Crown Zellerbach Corp., world's second-largest paper-products firm. An indefatigable worker, Ambassador-designate Zellerbach recently held five simultaneous chairmanships, 23 directorships, seven trusteeships and 25 memberships in an awesome array of companies, foundations, councils and clubs...
...layers of sweaters, coats and scarves, Dolores trudged up and down in biting winds and swirling snow before her employer's shabby office bearing a defiant placard: "On Strike." Her complaint was that the union would not let her keep her job if she married a construction worker named Victor Bosnak...
During Fryer's fortnight in Budapest, Worker readers saw only one of his dispatches, a wishy-washy interview with a British Communist living in Hungary. In his letter of resignation, published by the Worker when he threatened to "seek other means" of getting out the truth, Fryer disclosed that the dispatch had been heavily cut and two others had been killed altogether. Reason: they showed that Soviet intervention was "both criminal and unnecessary...
...interview that the Daily Express spread over six columns, Fryer charged that his editors had withheld one of his dispatches even from Worker staffers. He added: "It described certain excesses committed by Soviet troops. I saw the result of one of them. I saw an old man of 70 lying on the pavement dead, with a loaf of bread in his hand. He had been shot by a Soviet tank as he was coming away from a bread shop. I argued that there was no 'White terror' in Hungary. The rising against the Communist government of Hungary...