Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rump of President Grover Cleveland. Where Theodore ("The Man") Bilbo embarrassed respectable Southerners with personal peccadilloes, ranging from a particularly messy divorce to brazen bribe-taking, Eastland is the epitome of respectability-a devoted family man and a prosperous landowner for whom politics is a passion rather than a livelihood. And even in his most intemperate outbursts, Eastland never descends to the kind of semi-obscene, anti-Negro venom displayed by Mississippi's late Senator James Vardaman when he declared: "I am just as much opposed to Booker T. Washington as a voter as I am to the coconut...
...prosperous Thailand has tolerated this type of personal government and its corruption. Unlike most Asian countries, she is not yet threatened by overpopulation (although her population has tripled since 1900), and after World War II she was able to corner the world rice market, the crop which provides a livelihood for almost 70 per cent of her population. But now that other Asian rice producers have regained their feet, she is losing her monopoly. For the last three years, sales have declined until now she exports only 50 per cent of her surplus crops. Despite severe import restrictions, the balance...
...labs to take impressions or do major repairs except under the supervision of a dentist. In the Illinois Supreme Court last week, lawyers argued the case on appeal. The defendants contended that the law would force them out of business and thus unconstitutionally deprive them of their means of livelihood...
...network's research department. The four women in the department-the top one being Shirley Booth-are walking information centers and phone-answering encyclopedias. But elsewhere in the organization, the human brain has been successfully replaced by electronic ones, and soon, menacing the four women's livelihood, a huge mechanical dragon appears in Research...
...into a parade ground. Still Shanghai persisted in being a problem city. Its "teeming slums gave refuge to a steady flow of anti-Communists and criminals. Long after its shops and factories could provide jobs, they attracted hundreds of thousands who came from the starving hinterland in hopes of livelihood, thereby increasing unemployment, crime and supply problems. The city's population rose from 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 in six years...