Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What the cattlemen wanted from the Government, they said, was not price floors, but abolition of price ceilings and the compulsory grading of cattle required by OPS regulations. Before the week was out, the cattlemen got their wish: the Administration discarded meat-price ceilings (see above), and grading automatically became a voluntary matter again, as in pre-OPS days. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson advised cattlemen to rid their minds of "unwarranted pessimism" and to avoid "panic selling." By week's end the stampede to the stockpens had slowed down, and cattle prices had firmed. An Agriculture Department bulletin...
...rabbinate was quick to denounce the booming sales of Judaism's "abominable meat." Last week Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog led religious Israelis through a week of protest. Jerusalem was posted with signs titled "Ye Who Defile," which called both pig eaters and pig breeders "empty, godless people devoid of any respect for Israel or its values." At mass meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, rabbis pronounced an adapted version of an ancient curse: "Accursed be he who raises pigs, his partners, helpers and assistants, and sevenfold curses on him who raises pigs in the Holy Land of Israel...
Although many normally observant Jews, driven by the meat shortage, were eating pork, most of them felt uneasy about it. Said Legislator David Ha'Cohen, a member of Prime Minister Ben-Gurion's party: "I don't keep a kosher kitchen in my home, but to see Jews ordering pork chops in butchers' shops licensed by the Jewish state hurts something deep inside...
This week, the orthodox Agudat Israel Party has a bill before the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to ban all sales of pork to Jews. Other Knesset members discussed importing more kosher meat on the free market; they were confident that the sale of pork would then dwindle...
...Naked Spur ambitiously tries to dig into the theme of human greed, but it is neither a Greed nor a Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Nonetheless, Director Anthony (Bend of the River) Mann has richly fleshed out the picture with the red meat of action. Shot in the Colorado wastelands, the plot is unfolded almost entirely with the camera rather than with words. A striking exercise in violence, it is a western with real form, rhythm and authentic style. Best sequence: a three-way shooting match between Ryan, Stewart and Meeker up & down a cliff jutting over a raging, impassable...