Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary Hull is not blind to the forces which would destroy the effect of his trade agreements. He realizes perfectly well that the economic philosophy of self-sufficiency, with its guns-before-butter implications, is not only growing in popularity abroad but is catching on in influential circles in Washington. He knows that the Munich agreement was merely a truce concocted by a Britain desperate for time to rearm. But what he will not do is take the next step and conclude that there is no hope...
Sirs: The Sept. 12 issue of TIME notes, that the U.S. Government is buying 25,000,000 lbs. of surplus butter, surplus butter, surplus prunes, surplus this and surplus that...
...wonder how many TIME readers stop to consider that if the 20,000,000 on relief had the price of one pound of butter a year there would be no SURPLUS...
Missouri Legend is stale bread, but bread that is bound to fall butter side up because both sides are buttered. On the one side, there is the romantic bad man and all the melodramatic hokum ever devised, including the widder woman preyed upon by the wily banker. And if this side does not please sophisticated Broadway as it once pleased a gaslit Bowery, there is Playwright Ginty's nimble kidding and drawling backwoods humor to save...
...lent $7,250,000 to Dairy Products Marketing Association to buy and store 25,000,000 lb. of surplus butter. Few days later a sharp break in butter futures to 22¾?, lowest in four years, pointed up the seriousness of the situation...