Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cairo editor: "Pravda must go to press at 6 o'clock at night." The domestic economy twitches along in austerity and torpor, with tea and sugar scarcely obtainable except at black-market prices, and the regime invoking military law in an effort to force butchers to sell meat at new, government-set prices. The price of kerosene, essential for cooking and lighting in the fellah's household, is up 10% since last November, and foreign observers estimate that one out of every three Egyptians is now unemployed or underemployed...
...Stalin was 47 when he got there), is trying to do too much all at once. With an industrial production roughly one-third that of the U.S., Russia is 1) maintaining the world's largest armed forces, 2) trying to overtake the U.S. in production of meat, milk and butter, 3) sending aid not only to the satellites and Red China but also to susceptible Middle East nations, 4) facing an increasingly vociferous domestic demand for better housing and more consumer goods...
...densely populated show called The Big Record, moonfaced Patti Page was mostly what the late Fred Allen called a Pointer, i.e., someone who points at someone else doing an act and says "Watch him"-the sort of trick that "you could teach a dog to do by smearing meat on the actors." But when Patti lent her big, plain voice to the color-drenched proceedings, she was as pretty and wholesome as a milkmaid. The new George Gobel-Eddie Fisher songfest was not exactly the "wonderful show" Eddie called it, but shy, impish Lonesome George again proved himself the master...
...only two candidates have declared themselves--the Attorney General of Arkansas, who is a leading segregationist, and a local meat packer, who is running on a businessman's platform...
Beneath all the froth is a superb, incisive character study of the two men. Bourvil's slow mind can concentrate only on moving the meat. But to Gabin, a famous artist mistaken by his dull-witted companion for a house painter, the meat is an abstraction, a philosophical means of testing the cowardice of his countrymen and the wits of his enemies. After slipping their burden past one more peril, Gabin roars with immense self-appreciation: "This pig's making a genius out of me!" He unsuccessfully tries to persuade Bourvil to hijack their load...