Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...relying too heavily on ECA money. They cut some ECA subsidies; as a result, the Austrian government decided to raise food, coal and electricity prices by an average 30%. It also decided to raise wages, but only by 13%. The Reds saw this measure as a perfect cue to make trouble...
Scelba did not display his courage just for the fun of it. He had a political point to make, and in several speeches during his visit to Emilia he explained the point. Said he: "Communists speculate on the fears of others . . . The Italian Communists are only a minority [but] with threats and violence they intimidate large sections of the population . . . We must kill this inferiority complex which persists where Communists are concerned...
Because they must live and work in the debilitating tropics, U.S. civil servants in the Panama Canal Zone have long enjoyed certain privileges. Among them: 25% pay differential, income-tax exemption, commissary rights and "recuperative" vacations of two months a year. These features have combined to make life in the isthmian strip a kind of welfare-state Elysium. But last week Elysium looked a little more like the good old U.S.A. Before leaving for its recess, Congress had enacted a law decreeing that the Zone's Government employees, like federal workers elsewhere, must pay regular income taxes. Unkindest...
...shrewd move to make the most of his power and prestige, he arranged that the new President would be chosen not by Congress, but by direct popular vote. The move was almost too successful; for a while he had no opposition at all. Finally an obscure architect named Fénelon J. Alphonse came forward to stand against the popular colonel. At first no one would believe Magloire was not paying his expenses. But after thugs shot up his house, Alphonse plastered the capital with handbills proclaiming: "Down with dictatorship! Long live the rights...
...Marching Men, Rebel Anderson wrote, in 1917: ". . . I am not a popular writer, at least the royalty checks from my publishers do not indicate that I am. My books are seriously discussed by our American deep-sea thinkers but they are not bought by the man in the street . . . Make the publishers give you one if you can. Don't tackle the defenseless writer . . . I'll be hanged before I'll give any institution a copy of a book I write...