Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Radishes with Butter. Mendes was overjoyed. Before him lay the prospect that soon he might head the strongest and most effective coalition in the history of the Fourth Republic. His strongest single asset was his growing popularity among the most forgotten people in French politics: ordinary citizens. Opening a school here, laying a cornerstone there, Mendes was dramatizing his "New Deal" in glowing phrases. A sample: "The wind is rising, morning is here, we are at the dawn of a new France." With the French people aroused and behind him, he hopes to bend the quarreling politicians to his will...
...something that has to be smelled to be believed. The World's championship Rodeo in Boston Garden is wholly credible. From the incongruous bars of "Yours' to the closing "yowees" of the wild horse race, Boston Garden is a real, wild corral. All the best broncs are there: country Butter, Sling Shot, Pig Eye, Drunkard, and the best rides and the prettiest girls. Also The Range Rider and his Saddle Pal. The Range Rider wears blue suede shoes...
Agriculture Secretary Benson also told dairymen last week that his flexible support program was working out just as he had hoped. Dairy-products consumption has increased, said Benson, and the U.S. has not had to add a single pound of butter to its 408 million lb. hoard since Sept. 17. Furthermore, overall surplus buying since April, when the new program providing for supports at only 75% of parity went into effect, has been cut some 13% below 1953 levels...
...BarefootContessa (Figaro-United Artists) starts off as a series of expert thrusts through the tinsel of the perennial Hollywood rags-to-stardom saga. But Writer-Director-Producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who has successfully charred his bread and butter before (All About Eve). this time reaches so hard for significance that he loosens his grip on the ironic Hollywood spoof he almost has in hand...
...largest food relief program ever undertaken by U.S. churches was set in motion by the Church World Service, a branch of the National Council of Churches of Christ. Over the next three years, 500 million Ibs. of Government surpluses of wheat, cotton, cottonseed oil, corn, corn products, butter, cheese and powdered milk, with a wholesale value of $150 million, will be distributed free. Administrative and distribution costs will be covered through nationwide "Share Our Surplus" drives...