Word: makeing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...such devices as government production quotas deliberately made so high that he cannot fill them. Often he must give up his private holding because he has failed to meet a quota, or he may be sentenced to one, two or three years' imprisonment. The commissars boast: "We make great prog ress. By 1951 half the land in Yugoslavia will be socialized...
Tito's line is that he differs radically from Stalin because he believes in the equality of Communist states, whereas Stalin believes that a Communist state can be genuine only if dominated by Russia. The truth is that Tito would probably not hesitate to make satellites of Albania and Bulgaria, if he could apply superior power against them. What Tito has done is split the political atom - he has separated Communism and Soviet imperialism. But that does not mean that Soviet imperialists are not also Communists, nor that Yugoslav Communists are not also imperialists...
...Hainan hand, a foreigner who has lived on the island for 25 years, gives the Little Tiger credit for the beginning of progress. "Why, the people are actually showing some respect for the soldiers," he says. "If they have the heart to fight, these troops could make it tough for the Communists...
...eight years that had then passed since expropriation, Mexico's aging equipment ingeniously held together with baling wire had barely managed to keep established wells producing; hardiy anything had been done in the way of new exploration and drilling. With cabinet rank to help him make needed changes and deal firmly with the high-riding, left-wing oil union, Bermúdez brought in 51 producing wells in 1947 and 83 more the following year. In 1949, Pemex added 180 new wells to bring national production to an estimated 60 million barrels for the year...
Back in 1912 President Taft sent a young Iowa-born accountant to Nicaragua to help collect customs payments and make sure that some of the money went to service foreign debts. In the unabashed days of dollar diplomacy, that was one way the U.S. saw to it that a troubled Caribbean republic's obligations were met. At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job. More important, as the years passed, he made friends with a rising young National Guard officer named Anastasio ("Tacho...