Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...refrigerator-making is different from that used in making arms. What is needed first, they say, is a plant-construction boom in new munitions capacity, to be added to (not to replace) present commercially oriented capacity in durable goods. Such economists fear that to finance gun production by cutting butter consumption will merely redistribute, not absorb, the present horde of unemployed (around 10,000,000 in March). The Treasury would then be in the silly position of having to pay billions of dollars in relief, instead of riding (and collecting fat taxes on) a full employment boom...
With three echoing cheers for Juliana, three more for a free Holland, the plump blue-clad jack-tars of the Dutch cruiser that brought the war's first royal refugees to the New World last week said good-by to their princesses at Halifax. Immediately, butter-cheeked Juliana, Crown Princess of The Netherlands, and her tiny children-Princess Beatrix, aged 2½, and Princess Irene, aged 9 months-were whisked off to a pine-shadowed log chateau in the Laurentians. Juliana was bitter. Said she: "Never speak to me of pity. Pity is for the weak, and our terrible...
...aluminum utensils and condensed food rations. Napoleon's legionnaires, weighed down by bread and flour, carried packs that weighed 58 lb. The modern U. S. foot-slogger's pack weighs 31 lb. His emergency ration consists of nucleo-casein, malted milk, egg albumen, powdered cane sugar, cocoa butter-proteins, amino-bodies, fat and carbohydrates...
...TIME'S figures were correct but badly stated-Denmark produced one-half of the bacon, one-quarter of the butter, eggs in international trade. As to self-sufficiency: in 1936, a typical year, only about 13% of Danish grain and fodder was imported-which is not to minimize Germany's future troubles in supplying that quantity. Authorities: Statesman's Year-Book, League of Nations Statistical Year-Book 1938-39, The Northern Countries in World Economy and Denmark 1937 (both official publications...
...write 'bread and butter' letters...