Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only in agriculture does the Soviet Union confess great weakness. The new plan that so confidently ticks off industrial goals discloses no figures for past food production, and Pravda admits that the agricultural goals were not fulfilled. But the new plan demands 100% greater productivity on collective farms by 1960, which Western specialists think is an impossible target. "This new and dangerous stage in the attempt to assimilate Soviet agriculture," says the London Observer's Edward Crankshaw, "can mean nothing less than an unspoken declaration of war on the mass of the peasants...
COST OF LIVING in 1955 showed the "greatest stability" since the Government first started keeping track of the monthly changes in 1940, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Consumer prices fluctuated within a range of only .8 index points as declines in commodity prices, especially food, balanced out increases in service items, e.g., haircuts, movies, shoe repairs...
...addition, Harris continued, food prices supported by parity, have gone up at the same time that New England industry has declined. In this way, New Englanders pay dearly for what they buy, and receive little for what they sell, he added...
McInerney added, "Griswold can't just suck all the food juice out of a lemon and then throw away the rind. Before Harvard entered the picture, Puente had subscribers to his series, but many cancelled when Harvard announced that they were doing the same thing...
...dancing, so people regard me with greater respect." Then, taking his tongue out of his cheek, Industrialist Watson explained why he was only nibbling at his roast beef: "Breakfast is my big meal. My mother always told us you had to start the day right, with plenty of warm food in your stomach." Hailing Dwight D. Eisenhower as the greatest President since Abraham Lincoln, Watson told Sullivan that the U.S. is in better shape than in Watson's boyhood. Snorting at reports of growing crime and juvenile delinquency, Thomas Watson summed up some bright spots in a survey...