Word: classes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...prompted his organization of an antidrinking league as a youth, he kept tackling problems of parliamentary and agrarian inequalities. By 1922 he had pushed through the Lex Kallio, forcing Finland's big landowners to sell property to small farmers at pre-war prices, built a substantial enfranchised middle class by turning tenants into owners. To consolidate Finland's gains he worked hard for Pan-Scandinavianism and national defense, though the odds against him proved overpowering...
...western standards, Thailand's eight-year-old military machine is not formidable. The Army, which runs the Government, boasts 100,000 men, with first-class equipment for about 50,000 others. Its materiel and arsenals are fine but its experience is nil; in the last war Thailanders were used only for labor. The Navy consists of a few Italian and Japanese torpedo boats and destroyers, and four submarines. Some think the submarines can submerge, some think they cannot. The Navy has never tried. It recently offered to take some newspapermen out to prove the submarines could submerge. The newspapermen...
...Every child, regardless of race or class, should have equal opportunities for education suitable to his or her peculiar capacities...
Neither will the bondholders. If Erie (as is probable) comes out of the courts by January, she will not only be the heroine of one of the fastest railroad reorganizations in history, but may be the first Class I railroad to emerge from a section 77 reorganization...
...collapsed three times by 1895. Then she reformed. Under Van Sweringen control, she became a respectably operated road. But her capital structure never really recovered from Jay Gould's attentions, and she never again paid a dividend on the common. In 1938 Erie chugged into receivership (whither eleven Class I roads had preceded her) for the fourth time...