Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swollen agencies in Washington live in fear of their daily bread and butter," said Professor Schumpeter, in a stab at Bureaucracy. He labelled the money used to pay bureaucrats "negligible" compared with the damage they caused...
...income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes (40% on the average) from the panel; the jam comes from private patients...
...butter superior to margarine? For years, the warring champions of butter and margarine (made from vegetable fat -mostly soybean and cottonseed oil) have been smearing each other, despite laboratory tests on rats and mice that showed no difference in food value. In 1946, three Chicago physicians* accepted a grant from the National Association of Margarine Manufacturers to experiment with human beings...
...doctors picked two orphan asylums where diets could be strictly controlled. In one institution, 160 children were given only margarine-for bread, on vegetables and in pastry and frying. In another institution, of 107 children, butter was used...
...buffalo were grazing. The Department of Public Works had built overnight a square platform of brick and cement, three feet high and twelve feet square. At the four corners were stumps of the sacred peepul tree. On the platform was half a ton of sandalwood, mixed with ghi (melted butter), incense, coconuts and camphor. Gandhi's body was raised to the pyre...