Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this "buttery" ledger, was a "quarter dinner" held in the college four times a year down to 1765. The college butler prepared these meals. For one meal, in August, 1729, according to the "buttery" entry, the butler purchased milk, eggs, sugar, flour, nutmeg, "legg" of mutton, pork, squash, butter, pigcons, bread, apple pie, and wine. This meal cost 1 pound, 8 shillings, 7 pence, or about...
Another dinner, served in October, 1725, included pork, cheese, "fowle," butter, "beafe," carrots, turnip, apple pie, and wine, and cost 22 shillings, or about $5. Apple pie and wine almost always were on the dinner menu in those days, the ledger shown...
Most packers' fiscal years end abou Nov. 1. In fiscal 1935 the four big packers made some $32,000,000. In order to reap this profit, they had to sell no less than $1,850,000,000 worth of meat, butter, eggs, fertilizer, byproducts. The earnings amounted to only 1.7? per $1 of sale, but packers have long since grown accustomed to getting along on this modest ratio. The year was marked by a shortage of livestock. During 1935 only 29,266,000 little pigs went to market, compared to 44,398,000 in 1934. Total meat supply...
...tearing remorse and shame, and then calm and steadfast determination. And Irens Dunne, as his tranquil victim and ideal, gives us every nuage of her changing feeling toward him, and despond and exults to perfection. The others of the cast are fully as good as their names propels: Charles Butter worth, Betty Furness, Ralph Morga, Sara Haden, Albert Emery, Henry Armelia, and Arthur Treacher. The tenth "march of Time" vital, but not so timely, rounds out the progress...
...enter a closed house; to stumble over a chair lying on the floor where it was overturned in the haste of departure; to discover the morning paper lying as usual on the sideboard where it was left four months earlier; to find a forgotten quarter-pound of butter in the icebox- such will be the experience of the 74th Congress as it meets this week. This will be no new Congress but merely a second assembly of an old one picking up where it left off Aug. 26. The bills then in committee pigeonholes will be found in the same...