Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dissatisfaction was not entirely limited to tourists. Secretly seething were the 150 members of the khaki-clad Australian military detachment. Most of them decorated World War veterans, they were jammed into overcrowded barracks, fed rations that included no butter (until complaints were published in the London press), and finally given no time for a pilgrimage to the French battlefields, a party most of them had been counting on since leaving Melbourne...
Europeans use vacuum distillation to strip the flavor ingredients and vitamins from butter. Their vitamin concentrates are reported free from all taste, stable and suitable for mixture with foods. They also sublime hormones from urine, soap stock from fish, caffeine from coffee, quinine from cinchona bark...
...last week with the Cabinet's new orders showed that the commissariats managed to "overfulfill" their total quotas in many cases by grossly underfulfilling certain subsidiary categories. The Commissariat for Food, for example, went over the top as a whole, while insufficiently supplying Russians with sugar, fruit, vegetables, butter and margarine. Coal, electricity and oil went statistically over the top. But last week the Cabinet sweepingly ordered all Soviet organizations to reduce their consumption of coal, electricity and oil by 10%. disclosing a breakdown of planning in the commissariat in which they are pigeonholed...
There are more ways to choke a dog than by feeding it hot butter. There are more ways to increase circulation than by giving away cheap encyclopedias. Last week two U. S. monthlies tried two unusual means of adding to their readership...
...Army's present three extremely hearty meals per day have not proved tempting enough, War Secretary Duff Cooper amid laughter and cheers upped the Army's gustatory ante to four meals per day, with butter thrown in to replace customary margarine and "for younger soldiers a ration of milk to build them up." Instead of having to take care of his uniform and replace it at his own expense, Tommy Atkins will at all times be "completely equipped free" by His Majesty's Government, not only with service uniforms but with a "walking out uniform" of fetching...