Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sheer size and fanaticism, their "peace parade" was impressive. But there were signs that Communism's World Youth Festival was not all it was meant to be. Food supplies were badly fouled up. A Red commissary officer was jailed for allowing 380 tons of meat to rot. East Germany's overburdened transport system broke down, stranded thousands of blueshirts en route to Berlin. And though East German police barred 165 East-West streets, closed 30 westbound subway stations to protect their delegates from "imperialistic contamination," more than 50,000 young Reds a day swarmed into the Western sector...
...other side, the present 10% rollback on meat prices was left intact, but further meat rollbacks were banned. Quotas on meat slaughtering-which Di Salle says are vital to prevent black-marketing and which Midwest Congressmen say will only create black markets-were eliminated. Important credit curbs, Regulations W (autos) and X (housing) were relaxed...
...Holland stubbornly refused to deal with the Red unionists, set his hopes on a new Communist-free dockers' union, sponsored by the government. By last week, the Red strike was broken. Miners, meat-freezing and hydroelectric workers voted to go back to work. The Waterside Workers' Union had virtually ceased to exist; its Communist leaders were thoroughly discredited...
BENEDETTO CROCE, 85, Italian philosopher, who eats no meat...
Customer's Beef. In Tulsa, Okla., after they advertised that they would give a cow to anyone who could decipher the OPS meat regulations, Grocers Wes & "Choo" Phillips tried to head off an insistent housewife whose 850-word explanation was approved by the local OPS, finally compromised, awarded her a side of choice steer...