Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fresh meat, sugar and butter are scarce to the point of extreme rarity in the interior, but black bread, bologna and fish seem fairly plentiful...
...communicable disease, chiefly of cloven-footed animals. Domestic animals suffer from it more frequently than do wild ones. Besides beeves it sometimes afflicts sheep, goats, hogs, horses, dogs, cats, camels, buffalo, bison, antelope, chamois, llama, giraffe. Man, especially children, catch the disease from infected animals by ingesting unpasteurized milk, butter, buttermilk, cheese or whey. In man the disease is usually mild...
...process devised by John Woods Beckman, Oakland, Calif., industrial chemist, proves commercially practicable, people will have tiny "bugs" to thank for their soap, salad oil, synthetic hot dogs,* margarin, shortening and such commercial products as Mazola, Wesson Oil, Snowdrift, Crisco, Nuco Butter...
...world is weary. Liberal Lady Luck smiles invitingly, and old-fashioned Fate armed with a shot-gun grimly demands their intentions. There is a tide in the affairs of men. Last night when news reached New York that only thirty-two percent of the Senior class would have butter with their eggs, the bottom dropped completely out of the stock market, to be reassembled in the early morning hours by one old bull who said that it had all happened before and didn't really matter anyway...
...Butter (Lb.) 12¢ 14¢ 14?...