Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo citizens were offering as much as $1.50 for a pound of butter last week. Storekeepers limited purchases of eggs to a half-dozen. Pork was hard to get at any price. Reason: 1,000 A. F. of L. truck drivers and warehousemen struck for the closed shop, affecting every store in the city except Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. At the same time 1,300 C. I. O. packing house workers struck for recognition, a preferential shop, shorter hours, higher wages. Nearby farmers did a rushing roadside business. By week's end the truck & warehouse strike had been...
Surest way to attract attention anywhere is to appear to shun it. In Hollywood, where attention is the population's bread & butter, this technique is doubly infallible. And what Montague did on golf courses would have brought him notoriety anywhere whether he shunned...
Slim got his job because a butter-fingered lineman dropped a condenser and got fired. Red Blayd liked him. Red was independent as a king. He was the most respected man on that power job. He could have been a construction boss, but preferred a footloose life, wandering from one line job to another, working until he had a roll and then living high until he had to go to work again. First Slim was Red's "grunt" (groundman). Slim sent up tools as needed on the hand line, tossed up bolts which Red caught with the nonchalant magnificence...
Peanuts, however, have been his prime interest. His list of peanut products includes milk, butter, cheese, coffee, pickles, shaving lotion, breakfast food, flour, soap, ink, cosmetics, a dandruff remedy. When the Hawley-Smoot tariff bill was in the making, its framers were skeptical as to the need of U. S. farmers for peanut protection. George Washington Carver appeared in Washington, talked for an hour and 45 minutes to the Congressmen. When the bill passed a peanut tariff was in it. In recent years he has tried out peanut oil as a remedy for infantile paralysis, rubbing it into withered muscles...
...entered the corn year last October with nearly 800,000,000 bu less than is usually needed to feed the country's hogs, cattle and poultry. (The bulk of the corn crop goes to market as pork beef lamb, duck, turkey, chicken, milk,' eggs' butter.*) To fill their feeding troughs farmers have had to use wheat, oats rye barley, pieced out with Argentine corn 'in the six months through last March corn imports from the Argentine amounted to 42,000,000 bu., more than three times as much as in the same period the year before...