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Eisenhower charged a "famine or feast" policy to the Administration, which he said has encouraged a frenzied arms expansion with "disorder and duplication and waste." He said that while the draft continues "we cannot at the same time establish any form of training for our young...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nixon May Speak Here in October; Ike Disowns UMT | 9/26/1952 | See Source »

...long history as a feast-or-famine business, the sugar industry has developed a quick defensive reflex: the minute prices weaken, the growers cut production. This year, a record world sugar output of 44.4 million tons is expected to top demand by 2,500,000 tons. Faced with the prospect of falling prices, such big sugar producers as Cuba and Puerto Rico are planning a slash of 20% to 30% in their 1953 output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUGAR: Undynamic | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

...quell the Moros, who are second only to the Communist Huks in defiance of Manila's rule. In English, Magsaysay praised Kamlon's guerrilla fight against the Japanese and promised him possible clemency, even offered to help Kamlon make the pilgrimage to Mecca. Then came the feast-mountains of eggs, crabs, shellfish, washed down with beer, and a skittish sip of the strange brown beverage (Coca-Cola) brought for the occasion by Magsaysay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace under the Palms | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...Today, on his feast day, I was thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas. If he came to America, he would certainly be well received. But he would have to teach 20 hours a week, hear confessions every Saturday, give two sermons every Sunday, and make three speeches a month. Under those conditions, how could he become St. Thomas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dominican Looks at the U.S. | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...boosted by its bigger bottle and sweeter-than-Coke taste while bright young sales specialists were shipped to the area by Pepsi President Alfred N. Steele. Now in many cities it is a nip & tuck race, although Coke still outsells Pepsi in the area. This year, on a single feast day, Egyptians guzzled some 2,000,000 bottles of Pepsi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: The Pepsi Culture | 8/4/1952 | See Source »

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