Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...excited the world's Negroes last week. Not only Harlem but every other darktown was on the qui vive at news from Rome that for three nights running II Duce had sat up secretly with His Grand Council, contriving who knew what against the African Majesty of cocoa-butter-colored Haile Selassie I (Power of Trinity), Emperor of Abyssinia and Conquering Lion of Judah, whose somewhat Jewish features support his boast of descent from Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Clarioned the Negro New York News: "Colored America demands that civilization does not permit Italy to precipitate...
Last week people were again grumbling about the High Cost of Living. But this time it was not so much about the price of shelter and clothing as the soaring cost of food. Headlines proclaimed the farmer's joy that hogs, cattle, butter, eggs were at the highest levels in four and five years. Actually the farmer was not benefiting to any large extent because last summer's Drought had either depleted his livestock or boosted the cost of his feed. Nevertheless, U. S. housewives were mad clear through, and AAA officials even admitted that any further rise...
Meat prices jumped on the first Drought scare last summer but housewives brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from...
...ushers are to be Alfred C. Butter-field '37, Robert E. Eichler '36, Richard C. Ernst '36, Shaun Kelley '36, Thomas E. Marston 2G., Branford P. Millar '35, Charles E. Pettee '35, Richard S. Salant '35, Douglas C. Scott '36, Robert E. Simon, Jr. '35, Roy W. Winsauer...
...Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when we have a superfluity of good things the whole world will kowtow to Russia as to a rich uncle...