Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...complains-in Shanghai, before last week's strike, they upped their daily rentals from 60? to $2.60), moneylenders gouge him, racketeers batten on him. Yet, in 1918 in Shanghai, he took up bamboo sticks and iron bars to destroy the alien trolleys that menaced his means of meager livelihood-which, after all, is better than that of millions of his fellows...
...know that this is not an easy way to solve the wage problem, but it is the sound way. . . . Labor is the best customer management has, and management is the source of labor's livelihood. Both are wholly dependent on each other, and the country is dependent on both of them...
...three principles, as formulated by Sun Yatsen: Nationalism, or a free and equal China; People's Rights, or a democratic, constitutional China; People's Livelihood, or an economically progressive China...
...shoguns (Japan's military overlords), emperors were empty figureheads often cast aside, banished or assassinated at the shoguns' whim. "From the remote island to which he had been relegated, one managed to escape, hidden under a load of fish. Others had to sell autographs for a livelihood. The Emperor Tsuchi II lay unburied for six weeks until his son borrowed the money from Buddhist priests to pay for the funeral expenses...
...underlying idea is to develop an industrial base in order to realize the dual objective of national defense and people's livelihood...