Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Album may yet end in the black, Feeney said, but it is likely, however, that the '49 book, like all of its recent predecessors, will wind up with a deficit of at least several hundred dollars. Its immediate predecessor, the combined 1947-1948 Class Album, lost over $5,000 but the 1946 Album was only...
Perhaps the most important Nationalist measure on Formosa is land reform, begun by General Chen Cheng, Wu's able, shrewd predecessor as governor and now Prime Minister in the Nationalist government. Wu, good friend of General Chen, has vigorously enforced his land-reform program, which provides that farmers are to pay rents no higher than 37.5% of their crop (in the past, rents ran as high as 75%). The land reform has been partly financed by EGA and carried out with the help of a remarkable, little-known organization composed of U.S. and Chinese technicians called the Joint Commission...
Away from Parliament Hill, he spent most of his time at Laurier House, a homely old mansion willed to him by the widow of his predecessor. In the attic study hung a lighted picture of his mother, the only woman in King's life. On a nearby wall was a framed copy of a public notice offering ?1,000 reward for the capture of William Lyon Mackenzie, his grandfather and namesake, who led a rebellion for responsible government in Canada...
Brigadier General Chung II Kwon took over as chief of staff of the battered South Korean army when his predecessor, General Choi Pyung Duk, proved unable to stem the North Korean invasion. Rated a "first class officer" by U.S. military men, 36-year-old General Chung was trained in the rough-spoken Japanese army, but has long been noted in Korea for his polite, unsoldierly speech. Says earnest, spectacled General Chung: "There are two types of army people: one is the fighter, the excitable, rough type. The other is the planner. It is the planner's duty to remain...
Composed of a single plastic and Fiberglas shell mounted on legs, the new chair is more roomy, stable and luxurious, but just as simple as its predecessor. Pictures of the chair were being reproduced in dozens of newspapers and magazines, and an enthusiastic House Beautiful editor rhapsodically described it as "the sitting sensation of modern design...