Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...little in common besides the desire to stay in power. These parties pursue their petty intrigues while the security of France runs out. One party gets the War Ministry and puts in its generals; another party takes over the ministry and sidetracks the first party's generals to make room for its own. Result: the generals are playing politics and the army is demoralized. Although the basic economy of the country has made a fine recovery, French government finances are muddled. Ossified bureaucracy stifles the national life; civil servants and other pressure groups control the national budget...
...Desai-Khurody farm shows important progress against two of India's biggest problems: malnutrition, and the misuse of its tremendous cattle population, the world's biggest. Says Khurody: "I want to make this a sort of Mecca to which pilgrims can come from all over India to learn about cow culture...
Meanwhile, terrified Moslems had themselves become refugees, huddled together in camps while they waited for a chance to make their way to East Pakistan. One camp, on the Park Circus recreation area in central Calcutta, held more than 10,000 Moslems. Every now & then a group of Hindus slipped up to the camp, threw bombs into the refugee area...
...Medical Manufacturing Shop attached to the First Moscow Psychiatric Hospital "will make cardboard boxes for shoestores, drugstores, etc." But the buyer must supply the cardboard...
This self-supply gimmick is s.o.p. for the Artels (small cooperative groups of artisans), which place numerous ads. One ad, by the Metal Workers' Artel, prints a photo of a huge office safe, offers to make such safes for any comer-provided he brings his own iron...