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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troop movement in Lebanon showed the world we mean business. Europe has been weary of us for our defensive attitude in the past...
...bill came up for Senate hearings, the meat-packing lobby warned that new techniques would mean higher meat prices and the Department of Agriculture criticized the law as fuzzy and hard to police. Although the bill exempted kosher slaughter, Orthodox Jews opposed it as interference with shehitah, the ritual for killing kosher animals. The humane societies rebutted other arguments by pointing out that such countries as Switzerland, The Netherlands and England administer similar laws, predicted that rather than raising prices, new techniques would help packers recover $50 million in meat lost a year through careless slaughter...
...says was painted by St. Luke; it was also the great fortress famed for holding out against the conquering Swedes in 1655. No sooner had the church-state agreement of 1956 been made than pilgrims began flocking by the thousands once again to the shrine that had come to mean national independence. But even more disturbing to the government was the fact that the monastery has been distributing vast numbers of religious tracts, many of them strongly antiCommunist...
...sign of The Bull (a hotel in Buckinghamshire, England), Cinemango Jayne Mansfield played a favorite role, herself, for an Evening Standard interviewer. "I'm absolutely against lust," she breathed. "It's very immoral, in my opinion. What I'm against is [pause]-what does salacious desire mean? [Pause.] Yes, that's what I'm against-salacious desire. What you've got to have is inner sexiness and inner cleanliness. Sex without love isn't anything. [Pause.] Mind you, love without sex isn't much, either...
...some Wall Streeters, the rise was a little too fast for comfort; they argued that no earnings anywhere in sight can justify present stock prices. But with the end of the recession coinciding with a foreign crisis, a lot of investors apparently felt that means either " 1) a rising peacetime economy, or 2) business stimulated by war scares, both of which mean increased inflation...