Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DROPPING FARM PRICES will put parity below 80% for first time in 19 years. Lower prices are coming for cotton, grain, citrus, eggs, milk...
Beautiful Name. Every Frenchman, rich or poor, peasant or city dweller, would feel the effect. Without food subsidies the price of bread would rise 6%, milk 5%, macaroni 10%. Without government subsidies to nationalized industries cigarettes, coal, electricity and train tickets would be more expensive. For all veterans, except those over 65 or with more than 50% disability, there would be no more pensions. ("This is to give new value to the beautiful name of veteran," enthused Veterans Minister Edmond Michelet.) For farmers there would be no more subsidies for the planting of olive trees, and there would be higher...
...offered land to raise them on. Starting with eight brood sows in February, the farmers sold the fattened litters in October, made a handsome profit, paid back the government loan, gave back the land, dissolved the collective and went back to private farming. Polish officials wryly call such operations "milk" collectives-collectives that milk the government...
...Envious of quick-tanning athletic types, milk-faced Cogg-Willoughby fought back at weekend parties by muttering about how easy it is for Mediterranean types to acquire a tan, managing to imply that the bronzed fellows probably had a touch of the tarbrush in their ancestry...
...party line-- he is the subject of a thousand Western caricatures. With Sputniks today whizzing about the head of Apollo, it's difficult to accept the proposition that the Soviet Union is administered by men who believe the charm of a piston ring exceeds that of a milk maid, who see challenge only in the mundane decisions of tactics, not in the grand and original plans of strategy...