Word: workers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carper's Progress. Ekaterina Furtseva is the kind of woman functionary that Communist Stalin set out to create when he refashioned the party after the purges. A minor party worker in Kursk and the Crimea, she was called to Moscow and sent to the Institute of Chemical Technology. She graduated in 1941 as a chemical engineer. But instead of practicing her profession, she and her technical knowledge were used to prompt and police other workers. As she came up through the Moscow party secretariat, her speeches rang with carping phrases: "The Kirov dynamo factory is seriously lagging behind...
...Newcomer. At Gutman's signal the 19 singers performed one by one-a traditionally ample soprano, a baritone who is a sheet metal worker, a petite mezzo-soprano with long blonde hair, no fewer than six tenors (more tenors than Gutman had encountered in all his auditions in Seattle, Tulsa, the Twin Cities and Chicago put together). Almost every singer had got some of his or her basic experience singing in churches; some have sung with Denver's energetic young Greater Denver Opera Association. A few studied at Manhattan's Juilliard school...
...many as had originally been planned for the fall of 1956. In cooperatives the peasants still profit from their own crops, but in the next step, i.e., complete collectivization, the land will belong to the state, to be farmed by central management. The peasant will be a paid worker...
...synthesized in the laboratory. Taken by mouth, it cut the birth rate among 232 women by about two-thirds over a 15-month period, he reports. Some U.S. researchers scoffed at Dr. Sanyal's methods and results; others listened with interest because they consider him a careful, conscientious worker. The Indian government rated his findings worth a full-scale trial...
...have so frequently heard, of someone in a youth group, or someone helping youngsters to use their leisure time, 'Oh, he isn't trained,' or 'She isn't a trained social worker,' said in a tone of contempt. I'm sick to death of trained social workers! I don't mind how many degrees, nor how many hours and years someone has worked for those degrees! What good is he if he hasn't an understanding heart...