Word: progression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Progress in Atrocities
Your Oct. 12 article on Red China's Liu Shao-chi is quite interesting, but you fail to present the actual side of progress and improvement. It is the side of approximately 500,000,000 people being helped in conquering hunger...
...Signs of Progress. At home Ayub Khan cleaned house by firing some 2,000 corrupt bureaucrats, cracked down on black-marketeers and hoarders, collected long overdue taxes, and even retrieved two tons of gold from the sea, where it had been sunk by smugglers. Big landowners were forced to disgorge 3,000,000 acres for distribution to landless peasants. Fifty thousand Moslem refugees who had fled India twelve years ago were moved from fetid mud-and-straw shantytowns on the edge of Karachi into newly built camps. Foreign reserves have nearly doubled, industrial production has jumped by 10% and, even...
Vengeance Under Glass. Kubitschek's critics do not deny that he has been a builder, but wryly charge that Brazil's official motto, "Ordem e Progresso," has in the process become "Disorder and Progress." Kubitschek has printed almost as many inflationary paper cruzeiros (66.9 billion) as were printed in all of Brazil's previous history. He ignores Congress, shifts its appropriations to his pet projects-road building and Brasilia...
...nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger motivation for the usual violent action, which in this film is intensified and refined into a genuine parable of the journey of the soul, a sort of Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands...