Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five gleaming stainless steel fifty gallon vats bubble soup and stewing tongues; rows of spotless oak cutting boards hold heaps of fresh vegetables ready for processing; seven yards of jet griddle await the thousands of hot dogs sleeping for the moment beside legs of lamb, bacon, and hams in the clean coolness of mammoth refrigerators. The Central Kitchen rests like a well-bathed giant, poised to galvanize its members into action...
...roots of French insecurity is her weakening hold on Algeria, where terrorist activities tie down 400,000 French troops, who are theoretically committed to NATO and who cost French reserves nearly a billion dollars a year. For almost three years (since November 1, 1954) France has been fighting in Algeria for a fictional Overseas French Union and for the principle that France is still a great nation. As Eric Sevareid said last Sunday, "Loss of Algeria could spell the end of France as a top-ranking power...
Howls & Sparks. Two days later, Bevan once again reversed himself-and gave further thought to the high position he hopes to hold. Time was when Bevan said it would be "madness" and a "crime" for Britain to explode the H-bomb. Now he opposed a resolution to outlaw H-bomb tests...
...progressive Catholics the catchy new booklets are a means of winning children who otherwise would all too easily drift away (said one agnostic Paris mother: "It's dynamite. If my children got hold of that, they'd all be Catholics in three months"). To conservative French Catholics and the Vatican's Holy Office, it is a wrenching departure from tradition, alarming both by its content and the mood that produced it-so much so that the Vatican ordered it withdrawn, reportedly called on its author, Lyon-born Canon Joseph Colomb, to resign...
...five times before both company and customer were satisfied. To eliminate a troublesome production error, Norge spent thousands of dollars changing the transmissions in 27,000 washing machines. Major companies have training schools to help servicemen repair their products, maintain parts depots around the country so repairmen will not hold up a job for want of a special kind...