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...gone up from 31% to 41%, and the proportion of saturated to unsaturated fats has increased still more sharply. This is because unsaturated fats (corn, cottonseed and peanut oils and some olive oils) are usually liquid at room temperature, so they are messier than the solid saturated fats (lard, suet, butter). As a result, manufacturers of shortening usually hydrogenate their unsaturated fats-by adding a couple of hydrogen atoms under heat and pressure. This turns part of the unsaturated fats into saturated fats, which look better, smell better and keep better...
When the news of Anglo-French military action hit Chicago's mammoth Board of Trade, a flood of orders overwhelmed the grain pits, turned them into a bedlam as traders bawled bids and offers. Wheat, corn. rye. cotton, soybeans, lard-just about everything except onions-soared on the prospects of war shortages, sent the Dow-Jones Commodity Futures Index up 1.66 points to 165.79 for the largest one-day advance in 2½ months...
Nagy's lard-smooth face was needed after Stalin's death, while Soviet collective leadership was still collecting itself. Worried that Berlin riots might have chain reaction in satellites, the Russians in 1953 pulled the hated Rakosi back to Moscow, put up Nagy to head fictitious "People's Front." Nagy (called Hungary's Malenkov) condemned the previous "megalomaniac economic policy" and "exaggerated industrialization," promised workers more food, clothes, an end to "disciplinary measures." But one month after the fall of Malenkov in Russia, Nagy was denounced as a "rightist deviationist" who "encouraged nationalism and chauvinism." Reported...
Into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. headquarters in Washington one day last week waddled Captain William V. Bradley, the lard-bellied ex-tugboat skipper who took over the rackets-ridden International Longshoremen's Association after its expulsion from the A.F.L. in 1953. He was breathing heavily, almost apprehensively-and with good cause. His mission was delicate. He had come to try to persuade President George Meany to take the I.L.A. back into the fold...
...slow to benefit. In Eastern countries goods are still short, and the average worker must spend all or most of his wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded ECE: "The rate of increase [in personal consumption] has lagged behind popular expectations...