Word: butter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid for out of the President's private pocket...
...Commodore Marries. There is a theory, generally despised, that reality has nothing to do with bread and butter, and that if a man calls his house a ship and gets up in the night to reef his unreal sails against a storm he may still be less mad than most men and better off. Such a man was Commodore Trunnion...
Fanning Bread & Butter Pickles...
With that motto the Morrow Brothers ?cigar stores, washing powder, soap, shoe polish, honey, macaroni, mayonnaise, peanut butter, margarine, pickles, flour, meat, sugar?may be added to the roster of famed self-made business brothers: the two Brothers Behn (Col. Sosthenes and Hernand) masters of I. T. & T.; the two Brothers Giannini (Amadeo Peter and Attilio H.) bankers; the two Brothers Rentschler (Frederick B. and Gordon Sohn) in aviation and aviation financing; the three brothers Starrett (Paul, William Aiken, Ralph) and the two Brothers Chanin (Irwin S. and Henry I.), builders all; the two Brothers Van Sweringen (Mantis James...
Automobiles 25% 25% 10% Beans (lbs.) ½? 3½? ½? Bibles 15% 15% 15% Blackstrap (gal.) 1/6? .03? .03? Boots and Shoes Free 20% 20% Butter (lb.) 8? 14? 14? Cattle (lb.) 2? 2½? 2½? Cement (cwt.) Free 8? 8? Corn (bush.) 15? 25? 25? Corsets 75% 75% 75% Cream (gal.) 20? 48? 56.6? Diamonds (cut) 20% 20% 10% Diamonds (uncut) 10% 10% Free Dolls 7% 90% 70% Dried Apricots (lb.) ½? 2? 6? Dried Cherries (lb.) Free 2? 6? Eggs (doz.) 8? 10? 10? Flaxseed (bush.) 40? 63? 56? Glassware (toilet) Free 50% 82% Gloves...