Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Digging up material for a New Jersey almanac, Author Harry B. Weiss ran across the 1818 report of famed English Radical William Cobbett, in A Journal of a Year's Residence in the United States. Excerpt: "I have just dined upon cold ham, cold veal, butter and cheese and a peach pye; nice clean room, well furnished, waiter clean and attentive, plenty of milk; and charge, a quarter of a dollar. I had not the face to pay the waiter a quarter of a dollar; but gave him half a dollar, and told him to keep the change...
...large ham; some imported canned peanuts, hamburger and chile con carne; Dolan's butter and fat ration for the week; all cigars and cigarettes; some French and Swiss chocolate (he scorned some American Hershey bars); several bottles of rye and Noilly Prat vermouth; some razor blades; eight suits; pajamas, shirts; two dozen towels, bed sheets; portable typewriters, clocks; and all of Dolan's soap. He wasted no time on the flat's expensive furniture, paintings and silver...
...Price of Butter. One of their most influential weapons of propaganda is the weekly paper La Terre, an old, well-established agricultural paper which the Reds seized at the liberation. La Terre is unobtainable in Paris, but it sells, or distributes (many copies are given away) 300,000, copies every week in remote farms and tiny villages which are almost untouched by the Paris and big provincial daily newspapers...
...Terre cynically exploits the Communist farm line as against the city line laid down by L'Humanité of Paris. For example, L'Humanité said on Sept. 25: "In April, the Communists were in the Government, and butter cost 255 .francs a pound. Today the Communists are no longer in the Government, and butter costs 370 francs a pound. Now do you understand why you are hungry...
...same week La Terre said: "We are happy to note an appreciable increase in the price of milk, which rises from 9.75 to 15 francs a liter, and of butter, which is increased by 60%. Thus the authorities seem to have lent an ear to the claims we advanced on behalf of French farmers. . . . Let us hope that the new price level will become generalized for all farm products...