Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strangest newspapers in the world is edited in Lhasa, Tibet, by one Tharchin Baboo. The Tibetan News has a small circulation among an intellectual clientele of Tibetan lamas, some of whom pay for their subscriptions in yak butter. The paper contains cartoons, international news, and puzzles for the hours when the lamas' prayer wheels are idle. Recently readers of the News have been getting their yak butter's worth, for near-by-in China's Szechwan Province just to the east and Sinkiang Province just to the north-mysterious, important news was being made...
...additional prestige which another bloodless success would have procured for him with his own people. But it would only have been to start again once the world had recovered from the shock, and even his own people were beginning to be tired of these repeated crises. . . . Guns instead of butter were becoming more and more unpopular except with the younger generation, and Hitler may well have wondered what might happen to his Nazi revolution if its momentum were allowed to stop. Moreover the financial and economic position of Germany was such that things could scarcely continue as they were without...
...stores at 2? to 4? less than at present. Milk at 9? or 10? a quart would be possible, and at this price consumption would increase, much to farmers' profit, for the dairies pay most for milk that is sold in fluid form (i.e., not manufactured into butter, cheese, etc.). FORTUNE explains the conspiracy of circumstances which has prevented this simple solution, has continued to keep the price of fluid milk at uneconomic levels...
...National Dairy Products and Borden, whose subsidiaries distribute milk in most big cities, find it to their advantage to preserve home milk delivery. Their milk wagon routes give them a relatively closed market, and there is more competition in store sales. Actually the distributors make more money on cheese, butter, etc., so they have no special interest in pushing the sale of bottled milk...
...experiment, where even sober trustees are fired by the high task of ending body's tyranny over mind, To 45-year-old Dr. Putnam, as to the other bold, competent physicians in the Institute, the study of brain processes and the treatment of brain ills is a "bread-&-butter science." Deeply concerned with detours of nerve paths and battles of brain cells, he knows that a long chain of simple injections, or the sharp bite of a surgeon's knife into grey brain flesh may miraculously humanize a speechless paralytic, a savage child, a cancer victim crazy with...