Word: pork
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the government of Israel worked out a system of meat rationing, no one thought it odd to find pork on a restricted list reserved for diplomatic missions and Christian residents. Most Israeli Jews, whether orthodox in religion or not, prefer kosher meat to the traditionally forbidden flesh of pigs. As the food situation grew worse, however, the supplies of kosher meat ran low, and the government did not have the foreign exchange to import all it needed. Three months ago, in a desperate effort to maintain Israelis' fortnightly meat ration, the government allocated some locally grown pork...
When rabbis throughout Israel protested, government pork sales were discontinued, but the administration of Socialist Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion insisted that there was nothing wrong with selling pork on the free market. With a go-ahead sign like that, the owners of Israel's 30-odd pig farms began to sell their swine. Restaurant customers soon found their drab diet of cod fillets varied by the introduction of pork cutlets at $2.80 a portion, and housewives were able to purchase some nice cuts...
...even automobiles (make unspecified). But the enemy's loudspeaker campaign has been, to put it mildly, ineffective. He has broadcast Swedish music and talks in German to Dutch troops, the haunting strains of Carry Me Back to Old Virginny to unmoved South Koreans, and he has offered hot pork chops to Turkish Moslems...
...hunted up his old outfit, the 15th Infantry, in which he served as a lieutenant colonel at Fort Lewis, Wash, more than twelve years ago. He stood in the chow line of B Company, 1st Battalion, then sat down on an old ammunition box with three G.I.s to eat pork chops and sauerkraut off a plastic plate. They chatted about the news-Ike freely, the enlisted men with awe at their guest-and Ike made a surprising confession: "I don't read the papers," he said. "I wait until they come out and tell...
...George Meany, the A.F.L. had found a leader far different from quiet, colorless Bill Green. The son of a New York plumber and himself an apprentice plumber at 16, Meany, now 58, is a genial extrovert who firmly believes that a labor leader should be concerned with more than pork chops for his boys. An aggressive speaker with a talent for sticking to the pertinent facts, he became business representative for New York Plumbers Local 463 at 28. At 40, he was the youngest president of the New York State Federation of Labor since Samuel Gompers...