Word: pyramidal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviet rulers live in luxury, atop a social pyramid that is surprisingly stratified. Below them Vladimir Yurasov, a member of the Soviet Reparations Mission to East Germany who escaped, and reached the U.S. in 1951, has distinguished these main groups...
...Pyramid of the People. Half the people of the Soviet Union are Great Russians; the rest, a score of races, speak 200 different tongues and dialects. There are Tartar horsemen unchanged since Genghis Khan, primitive Yakhuts, Samoyed reindeer herders, Mongol tractor drivers and Cossack commissars. There are 20 million Moslems in the U.S.S.R. All of these diverse and frequently antagonistic peoples are ruled by the Soviet elite: some 50,000 ministers, managers, army officers and intellectuals, who are more removed from the people than were the Czar's nobility...
...Sunkist's new lemonade concentrate meant more vitamins for the growth of the world's largest food cooperative. Since 1893, when a few growers took the name "Southern California Fruit Exchange" and joined forces to market their crop, the co-op has blossomed into a huge pyramid with a base of 14,000 growers and an apex of hired managers who run the business. Not many of Sunkist's growers own more than 15 acres apiece. But together they market about 75% of all the citrus fruit in California and Arizona-28,600,000 boxes of lemons...
...will pick, sort, grade and market about 16,000 boxes of oranges and lemons for him. They should bring approximately $150,000 on the market and, after all expenses, leave Daggs with a $15,000 profit for his year's work. Daggs sometimes complains about the heavy pyramid over his head, but he wouldn't market any other way. Says Grower Daggs: "You just can't argue with results...
...great Sphinx lay in fleeting twilight. In the background loomed the Pyramid of Cheops, majestic monument to human striving for eternity. Over the entire scene hovered the breath of the silent desert, the hush of ages. Then a voice spoke...