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While lacking in strict dogma, and refusing to compete with established religious, Moral Rearmament requests its followers to observe a daily "quiet hour." During such a period the individual concentrates on an attitude of mind, which according to believers in moral rearmament, brings the guidance...
Milk controls were born during the Depression, when farmers were forced to sell milk for as little as 1? a quart. In all, 26 states passed laws to protect farmers and bottlers. Some later junked the laws, but 16 states still maintain strict controls. In addition, federal controls can be applied if a majority of the milk producers in an area petition for them. As a result, three of every four U.S. citizens drink price-controlled milk...
...opening of the campaign was preceded by a candidate orientation meeting where members of the Union Sub-committee on Elections explained what chairman Edward B. Dunn called "strict rules" and a Student Council-suggested system of preferential balloting...
...About 40% of the U.S.'s estimated 5,500,000 affiliated Jews belong to Conservative congregations, which stand between the religiously strict Orthodox Jews (4%), who insist on the letter of the law, and the Reform Jews (20%), who have changed the letter considerably (e.g., work on the Sabbath permitted, no hat worn in the synagogue...
...east side sold milk for 15? a quart; grocery chains and supermarkets chopped their prices 2? a quart all along the line. The cause of the big drop was an overwhelming revolt of Oregon voters against the state's 21-year-old Milk Control Law, which set strict production and distribution quotas, minimum wholesale and retail prices. The man responsible: a modest farmer named Elmer Deetz, who runs a 12-cow dairy farm near Canby...