Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Finance Committee, after talking it over with Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, regretfully shelved the bill to cut excise taxes. Thirty-five Senators (including five Democrats) backed a 10% cut in all non-defense appropriations, including ECA. Majority Leader Scott Lucas promptly objected to any such "meat...
...waves. The Reds had surprised everyone with their fighting ability and determination, but on closer acquaintance they had shown certain weaknesses, such as attacking in vulnerable masses. They also had a tendency to barrel straight ahead with their armor, using it as a sledge hammer instead of as a meat chopper. This kind of tactics permitted U.S. withdrawals when things got too hot; it also meant that the Reds were not causing as much destruction as the Germans did in the blitzkrieg phase of World War II. North Korean military weaknesses might be exploited when (and if) the U.S. buildup...
...Keep Friends. Czechoslovakia does have nearly full employment, and its standard of living is now the highest of any country in the Communist world. All basic foodstuffs, except meat and butter, are unrationed, and clothing coupons are being more generously released. But in the "free market," prices are still 50 to 500% above rationed goods...
...Brother Hance's reputation grew, he moved into successively larger quarters. The present St. Barnabas' Free Home at Gibsonia is an ivy-grown stone house of about 50 rooms in the midst of 147 acres, on which the home's milk and meat is raised. Another house at North East, Pa. has 37 patients. St. Barnabas' Brotherhood, founded as a religious order in 1913, now numbers five cowled and cassocked brothers. "One is an engineer," Hance explained last week, "a draftsman and all that. Me, I've got no brains...
...over the U.S. last week, the prices of meat and many other products rose with a rush that was painfully like the burst of inflation in 1948. Booming industrial production sent metal markets soaring: copper jumped 2? a Ib. to 22½?; nickel was up, and even magnesium, which hadn't shown a rise since 1943, moved...