Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little. To increase the State's stock of silver, Torgsin was authorized to accept silver plate and old jewelry as valuta. Next day Torgsin stores were jammed with hungry, ill-clad natives, eager to swap silver for rough clothing and such luxuries, dear to Russians, as smoked salmon, butter, caviar, vodka. Prices were steep. It took a kilogram of silver (2 3/5 lb.), worth about $7.80 in Manhattan, to buy one pair of Torgsin shoes. Two pounds of butter cost 137 grams of silver with other prices in proportion. If silver-bearing Russians wanted rubles, Torgsin clerks gave them...
...brother Hugh has described Sculptor Lenz as a man who hated capitalism, bullfights and time clocks; liked butter, sleeping outdoors, violets and Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Particularly since the War, the ideals of modern art are diametrically opposed to the little nymphs of Alfred Lenz with their fluttering draperies. All artists respect the knowledge and dexterity that went into their manufacture, look forward to exciting developments that general knowledge of the Lenz process will bring...
...Very little food is left over," said Mr. Westcott, "which cannot be put to some legitimate use within the University. Left over butter, dried-up rolls, and a few other items accumulate once in a while, but this is seldom usable for food, and we sell what little there is, along with the kitchen grease, to various concerns...
Essentially the new Exchange Law is designed to give Premier Stauning power to bargain with Great Britain when a Danish delegation goes to London this month "to save Denmark's butter, egg and bacon trade." These and other Danish farm products must be saved from too drastic application of the Ottawa Conference tariff accords or Denmark will find herself cut off from her best customer...
...crusty millionaire, infuriated by the avarice and incompetence of the persons who expect to inherit his money. Instead of making a will he decides to distribute his fortune, $1,000,000 at a time, to persons selected at random from the telephone directory. The first million goes to a butter-fingered salesman (Charles Ruggles) in a china store. He buys himself a cane, invites his employer to watch him use it on shelves of tableware. A prostitute (Wynne Gibson) takes a room in an expensive hotel and goes to bed alone, without her stockings. A forger (George Raft) is unable...