Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...students of Lowell House stare down upon their plates and grumble that the Lowells would never stand for such food. Last week Head Tutor Elliott Perkins of Lowell House received from the student House Committee a formal, itemized account of the evils of House food. The cream: sour. The butter: rancid. The haddock: wormy. The milk: warm. The eggs: bad. The toast: cold. The vegetables: wet. The stew meat: gristly. The chicken: hacked instead of carved...
...Rancid butter, silver soiled...
...average housewife's kitchen, where only a little food is prepared at a time," answered Mr. Kriens, "the labor-saving device is hardly worth the trouble of keeping it clean." Thus rebuffed, Show newshawks pecked out reams about its solid butter fan-dancer by Sculptor R. A. Adamson (see cut), described as "the Show's centre of real attraction...
...from $1.18 for July delivery to $1.25 for June delivery. Gasoline sold at from 5.78? to 5.98? per gal. Trading in oil and gasoline brought the number of commodities bought & sold on U. S. Exchanges to 33. The others: wheat, corn, rye. oats, sugar, coffee, cotton, silk, rubber, hides, butter, eggs, copper, zinc, tin, lead, rice, barley, lard, ribs, provisions, potatoes, cotton seed, flour, hay, flaxseed, millseeds, cocoa, wool, tops, grain sorghums, sugar bags...
...billion and a half dollars exceeds that for all grains and vegetables combined, accounts for more than a quarter of total U. S. farm income. Its $7,000,000,000 worth of land, buildings and herds make it the No. 1 cash venture in agriculture. For cooking, drinking, canning, butter, cheese its 26,000,000 cows yield a hundred billion pounds of milk every year. Into the midst of this great industry last week was tossed a book called Breeding Profitable Dairy Cattle* which contained the astounding charge that most U. S. milk is eked from almost medieval cattle bred...