Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ports, one's profits on butter-stamps, axes, ballads, candles, sermons, maple sugar, hats, horse liniment and soft soap, could be put into indigo, poplin, clocks, Bibles, Jews-harps, carriages, beads. One swapped for a horse and, if one's reputation permitted, peddled home again to dazzle the village with a city wardrobe and watch-chain...
...Bread & Butter...
...prosperity reached a point where bread-&-butter education is decreasingly in demand? The Department of the Interior published a survey of private business and commercial schools. Enrollments had fallen off from 32% to 61% in five years. Classes in bookkeeping, stenography, accounting and salesmanship were particularly diminished. Wireless telegraphy showed the greatest decrease, 67%. . . . Partial explanation: public high schools have opened courses in many a commercial subject...
...soldier's daily food ration from 35? to 50?. Some items in the new daily ration: Beef, fresh or frozen, 18 oz.; bacon, 6 oz.; flour, 18 oz.; beans, 1.2 oz.; rice, 8 oz.; potatoes, 17 oz,; onions, 5 oz.; prunes .384 oz.; sugar 4 oz.; butter, 1.75 oz.; pickles, .08 gill; cinnamon, .014 oz. Simultaneously, the War Department reduced the weight of the soldier's pack to 51 pounds...
Sentinel. Journalists ejaculated last summer when Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett of several newspapers, notably the Rochester Times-Union, in the lush butter & egg, and grape juice counties of New York, reached far out and bought the Sentinel, largest daily in Winston-Salem, N. C. (TIME, Aug. 23). That twin town, that tobacco-boom town, must certainly be a "comer" if Frank Ernest Gannett was goin? in there with a newspaper, they thought. But either he was mistaken, or it was too fast a boom town for even Frank Ernest Gannett to keep up with, or he made a good turnover...