Word: eached
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During its ten weary weeks, The Hague conference had often seemed close to failure. The Indonesians had wanted as much independence as possible, the Dutch had wanted to retain as much sovereignty as possible. But eventually the Dutch and the Indonesian delegates grew to trust and understand each other. One...
South Africa's white men have decreed that South Africa's black men must carry official permits to travel, to work or be absent from work, to walk the streets after 9 p.m., to have their wives live with them in "locations" (suburban areas, usually overcrowded shantytowns, set...
Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which...
Plump, apple-cheeked Gustave Marquot, who lives with his family 100 yards from the plant, spends two hours of his nine-hour day at his desk, the other seven talking to workers or watching them make glass. He and his employees use the familiar tu when speaking to one another...
In Moscow's Metro, each station has an architectural motif. The murals in the new station at the Central Park of Culture and Rest are devoted to "Leisure for the Working Classes." On a wall are the words of the 119th article of the Stalin Constitution: "Citizens of the...