Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denmark, Herr Hitler got something good. Denmark produces one-half of the entire world supply of bacon, one-quarter of the butter, one-quarter of the eggs. Its economy is 35% agricultural and, like neither Norway nor Sweden, it is almost self-sufficient. Denmark grows most of the fodder needed to feed its 564,000 horses, 2,845,000 pigs, 3,183,000 cattle, 27,600,000 cocks and hens. By "protecting" Denmark, Germany assured itself of a margin of food for want of which the German population might have revolted. The Danes themselves were rationed to a maximum four...
...part in Philippines-U. S. traffic than the ships of any nation. South America, with an export balance of $20-25,000,000 annually to Scandinavia, has often used Scandinavian proceeds to buy U. S. goods. Great Britain got 50% of her bacon and eggs and 25% of her butter supply from Denmark, and Denmark's animals were fed in part by corn, cottonseed cake, etc. from Great Britain, Brazil, Argentina...
...grumble of discontented stomachs causes some headache to trouble-ridden John Harvard. Again his unruly crowd of pupils clamors for richer foods terrestrial, as if the fare of Learning were not enough to still the scholar's appetite. The battle-cry of Harvard's venerable past--"behold, the butter stinketh!"--again resounds in academic ears, but in a modern version that may well produce streamlined results...
...been touched by any outfit in the past few years, nor can I say that I have much expectation of seeing it touched in the future. I, who am certainly the only collector in the country with every single copy of Louis Armstrong's Hot Five recordings (including Big Butter and Egg Man and Irish Black Bottom, on both of which Louis takes superb vocals), can assure you that this is strictly hep information...
...ever got a lesson in musical composition. Like Abraham Lincoln, on whose birthday he was born, he got his education the hard way, all by himself. In 1918, when he was mustered out of the Army, he drove a truck for a living, delivering 3,000 lb. of butter and 300 dozen eggs a day around Los Angeles...