Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...children 3 lb. each, a third child 1½ lb. Only the 4-year-old son retained his weight when the Rev. Fletcher D. Parker of Hartford, Conn, fed his family for a week at a total cost of $2.24. That sum bought potatoes, pork, lamb, canned milk, butter, flour, rice, prunes and eggs. But no fruit, cereal or fresh milk. Those were the foods, that the amount, on which Hartford social workers last week hoped indigent Hartford families could subsist...
...sense were innumerable. Although no professors are to be found who will confess to taking advantage of this bounty, it is assumed that their wives were quick to see the opportunities which lay in such a transaction. With a little judicious diluting of the consomme, a stretching of the buttered parsnips, and a stringing out of the beans a supper for two could be made into an attractive if limited supper for four. Net profit, $1.00. Again, if still larger game were sought, a simple, yet filling picnic of peanut butter and hot chocolate could quickly be provided...
Cars for the Classes. If cars for the masses are bread & butter to the Industry, cars for the classes represent the cream of the machine age. Polished instruments of beauty and precision, the high-priced models always draw the most pop-eyed crowds. Pierce-Arrow last year exhibited a special fully streamlined model called "Silver Arrow." This year nearly all Pierce-Arrows are Silver Arrows-in varying degrees. In its line of eights and two lines of twelves are models for every taste in streamlining, as well as strictly conventional models for the strictly conventional...
...weighing 344 Ib. It was the gift of the committee's chairman, Utilitarian Henry Latham Doherty. Designed and baked in the kitchens of his Miami-Biltmore Hotel, the cake is, like the hotel, of steel frame construction. It contains 548 eggs, 75 Ib. of sugar, 50 Ib. of butter, 60 Ib. of flour, 75 Ib. of assorted fruit, 1 quart of vanilla, 3 quarts of rum and rose water. It cost $79 including $15 for labor, and occupied five men for 24 hours...
When Empress Waizeru Menen of Abyssinia (TIME, Oct. 9) walked into the Mograbi Opera House in Tel-Aviv to witness the performance of Rigoletto by the Palestine Opera Company, she was one and a half hours late and she did not "waddle like an ambulating lump of cocoa butter." Hindered on all sides by thousands who thronged the square in front of the building to see the modern Queen of Sheba, her walk, though slow and halting, was nonetheless queenly. Were she slimmer, eyes on Lenox Avenue would raise a notch as she passed...