Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S.R (Minutes) Wheat bread, Ib. 5 7½ 70 Veal, Ib. 37½ 34½ 315 Butter, lb. 30 48½ 642 Beer (1 pt. Ib. draught mild) 22½ 6¼ 171 Cotton dress 450 142 1,911 Woolen suit...
...cotton planters were convinced that they had a legitimate grievance. Coloring is common in other foods; even butter is often colored. But the cotton planters had always lacked enough political support to outlobby the Midwest dairymen. At their convention, the planters sealed a pact with representatives of Midwest soybean farmers, who sell soybean oil to margarine makers. With Southern Democrats to support cotton men and soybean farmers pressuring Midwest Congressmen, planters thought they had a good chance to get the tax killed. Cried white-haired Charles G. Henry, council chairman of the margarine committee: "We are finally going to beat...
...Drain Trouble." At a recent house party in Gloucestershire, one guest drove up with a load of hay, another with a batch of butter. One Manchester builder always carries drainpipes in the back of his car and wears overalls over his natty $75 suit. Officially, he is always on his way to or from "drain trouble." An enterprising publican near Birmingham bought a hayrick, stuck it in a nearby field, and advertised it "for sale." Farmers could drive to the field to inspect the hayrick and, incidentally, drop into the pub for a pint...
...midweek the pressure was so great that the government had to do something. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott announced the remedy: a partial return of price controls. There would be price ceilings on meats, to be fixed in a week or two; controls on butter, to peg it around 73? a lb.; controls on certain types of fertilizers and a rollback of the price of chemical ingredients; extension of the government's price-control powers for another year. The government might even import butter from New Zealand. Rent controls would continue...
...remedies satisfied nobody. Top government planners recognized them as half measures. To be effective, they argued, price controls had to be total, as in wartime. Consumers were just as unhappy for different reasons. The cost of meats and butter was not going back to the levels of two months ago, but was to be frozen-about 25% higher for pork products, 10% to 15% higher for beef, veal and lamb, 7½% higher for butter...