Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, the election called for a vote of confidence in Norway's four-year-old Socialist experiment, directed by lean, ascetic Commerce Minister Erik Brofoss, a Norse version of Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps...
...operates power plants, railroads, ports, communications, sugar, salt and tobacco manufactories, oil, steel & coal enterprises ; it dominates shipping and banking. The bureaucrats have grandiose dreams of industrialization and self-sufficiency. They built a huge steel mill at Karabuk for $23 million-equal to the national education budget for one year. They are blueprinting airplane factories and plush government offices. But Turkey cannot yet keep pace with their plans...
...still have few steel plows. But everybody seems to want improvement. Perhaps the most important result of Turkey's uneven march toward modernization is the creation of new demands-a great market for progress. Most Turks would understand the words of Celtik village's oldest inhabitant, 92-year-old Hayriye Soydan. Stooped, wrinkled and deaf, she still wears the traditional western Anatolian peasant costume-flowered baggy trousers, dark blouse, a blue-and-white yasmak (handkerchief) around her head. Sitting cross-legged on a long sofa, she told her (and, in a sense, Turkey's) story...
Communist forces, completing a 1,500-mile victory march since Mukden's capture almost a year ago, entered from the north. A million Cantonese carried on impassively while the Red underground among them emerged for jubilant street parades and dancing of the yangko...
...gutted streets screaming: "We want the head of Laureano!" At that time Laureano was presiding over the Bogota hemispheric conference as Colombia's foreign minister. He barely escaped the rioters (they burned down his house and the plant of his newspaper El Siglo) and took refuge for a year in Franco Spain...