Word: planned
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...best done by trained laborers with bulldozers and steamshovels. But bulldozers and cement mixers stand idle because no one apparently has been able to train the men to use them. The labor force is unstable because it is at the mercy of any bureaucrat's interpretation of the Plan. "Just when we get a good gang of men working," said a U.S. engineer at Zenica, "some joker decides to send them to another...
...difficulties and restrictions. We have no results yet, but we make big things, hydroelectric plants, steel mills. These take time, much work, manpower, but when the day comes when we can produce, then you shall see." Then he introduced a twist: "When we made the first five-year plan, we were full of ideas we had received and accepted from the U.S.S.R. without any criticism. If we had had then the ideas we have now, we would have made our revolution differently-not necessarily with more attention to consumer goods, but certainly in different proportions...
Such a speedup, the New York regents pointed out, would make it possible for many a student to squeeze in at least a year of college before induction. The regents were not asking New York schools to adopt their suggestion until Washington settles on an over-all national service plan. But when Washington does, the regents thought, accelerated high-school courses would become "a patriotic duty...
...mercy killing of her sick father. She had put an overdose of narcotics in a hypodermic so that her father's nurse, thinking she was giving a normal dose, would inject it and kill him. Was Dr. Morgan in favor of euthanasia? Said the syndicate: the strip did plan to present the pros & cons of euthanasia. But the syndicate added comfortingly: Dr. Morgan would not forget his Hippocratic Oath...
...meeting, seemed delighted. They were even more pleased by the profit charts on display. In the latest fiscal year, Hawaiian Pineapple netted a tidy $5,400,000, almost $1,000,000 more than the year before. Although the union, dominated by Communist Harry Bridges, denounced the employee explanation plan as a "company union" scheme, the employees like it. Not since 1947 has Hawaiian Pineapple been struck by Harry Bridges' union. Said Miyazaki in San Francisco last week: "It's a good company to work...