Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meat of the ACLU's work concerns various aspects of campus life, or, as they put it, "Students as Campus Citizens...
...foreign ministers scattered to their capitals. But the issue stayed on the U.N.'s agenda, and Secretary-General Hammarskjold went right to work on arrangements for further negotiations to put real meat on the bare bones of principle. The agreement was too vague to promise solid chance of a settlement, and in Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser cast fog on the most important of the six principles by asking: "What does Mr. Dulles mean by 'insulating the canal from politics?' The canal still runs through Egypt." The week's events, however, could be counted a broad step...
...corporate dividends were up 15% for the first eight months, employment was at an alltime high of 67 million. And one index was pleasantly down: consumer prices dipped .02% last month, breaking a five-month climb. The news was tempered with a sobering thought that expected price increases for meat, apparel, coal, haircuts and automobiles (see below) may raise September's cost of living to last July's alltime high...
CHEMICAL MERGER will push Union Carbide & Carbon Corp., already one of biggest raw-plastics producers, deeper into consumer fields. In $99 million stock swap, Union Carbide plans to acquire Visking Corp., big producer of cellulose meat casings and polyethylene film (raincoats, containers...
...progress in the East, the consumer was slow to benefit. In Eastern countries goods are still short, and the average worker must spend all or most of his wages just to feed himself, his wife and two children. ECE calculated that a monthly breadbasket, including just 4 Ibs. of meat. 3.3 Ibs. of butter and lard and 9 eggs per person, would cost 110% of the average worker's income in Rumania, 105% in Bulgaria, 95% in Poland, 93% in Hungary, 88% in the U.S.S.R., 77% in Czechoslovakia, 72% in East Germany. Concluded ECE: "The rate of increase...