Word: complaint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rise. Last week General Foods Corp., largest U.S. packaged-food processor, reported that its sales in the fiscal year ending March 31 topped $1 billion for the first time, its earnings jumped 10% to $48.4 million-and both are still climbing. President Charles Mortimer, 57, had only one minor complaint: "We spent $87 million in advertising last year, but not one penny to advertise the name of General Foods. Most of our customers do not even know that General Foods exists...
Secretary Dulles publicly supported Chamoun by saying that the Lebanese regime had "what seems to us to be serious evidence" of Nasserite interference in its affairs; but the State Department privately hoped that the Lebanese government would not press its complaint before the U.N. asking investigation of United Arab Republic subversion. Cairo, Moscow and half the Middle East press were crying "American intervention." Two of Chamoun's Moslem ministers resigned in protest at what they called a "betraying" appeal to outsiders against a fellow Arab state...
...week's end Beirut reported that Chamoun himself was showing some disposition to call off his U.N. complaint and accept a peacemaking government headed by his fellow Maronite, Army Chief Shehab. If so, the fundamental U.S. objective of maintaining an independent Lebanon, in delicate Moslem-Christian balance, would be better served than by widening the chaos. In the turbulent world of the Middle East, an ally may sometimes help its friends more by not making them too conspicuously dependent on its help...
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Twentieth century commentaries are also included and form some of the most interesting material in the book, especially those of Juanita Brooks, Dale. L. Morgan, Samuel W. Taylor, and Wallace Stegner whose eulogy to Salt Lake City concludes the volume. Indeed, the major complaint one can find with Among the Mormons is that the accounts are concentrated too heavily in the earlier periods of Mormon history, giving the book an overly academic tone...