Word: pies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Working under the supervision of a dean of labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least...
...Here you usually have to do something you don't like, and you don't make any money either.'' More than 40% of France's population lives in rural areas, and some 2,000,000 young men and women work in agriculture. The agricultural pie has been sliced up time and again, until a good-sized farm in France hardly exceeds 50 acres. Such small-farming (although a land reformer's dream) does not make much economic sense and exists largely because of government subsidy-e.g., Napoleon subsidized sugar-beet growers during...
...Government took only 35? of the taxpayer's dollar, while 65? went to states and local governments. Then a quarter of a century of centralization, high spending and war shifted the balance. By 1953 the pie was cut 75? for the Federal Government, 25? for the states and local governments. In 1955 the trend is being reversed. The current estimate...
...cutting back and holding down federal taxes and expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration has sliced off a slightly smaller cut of the tax pie for the Federal Government. Last week, as state legislatures were completing their 1955 sessions, it was clear that the states are reaching out for a bigger and bigger slice. Said Chicago's Frank Bane, executive director of the Council of State Governments for the past 17 years: "In raising state taxes, there is a more extensive and more concerted drive this year -with more results. The increase this year will be almost twice as extensive...
...resign. Said Fairless: "There must always be room at the top of our management team for young men with young ideas and a fresh, new outlook." At that, the stockholders all got up and sang Happy Birthday, then sat down to a lunch of cold turkey, ham, salad, pie and coffee...