Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever the prospects of eventual union, in rationed Holland last week lean and shabby Dutch, once stout and well-dressed, were hoarding their 40 weekly cigarets, while across the border in Belgium men with money ate lobster, steaks, butter, and drank French wine. Many Dutch women still wore ski trousers and ski boots while their Brussels sisters chatted over their tea in chic comfort...
Columnist Mark Sullivan used strong language: "Hardly ever in the world was anything so fantastic" as the Government's support of farm prices. "It is an economic monstrosity, a fiscal and social danger." New York's Butter and Egg Merchants Association called for a "congressional investigation of the whole stinking mess...
Mike Cahaly, of Cahaly's Delicatessen, who was one of the leaders in the local fight to keep down prices when O.P.A. ceilings went off last summer, pointed to his less than 10 percent markups on items like butter, bread, and cigarettes as the reason why he could not bring his prices down...
Astronomy 1 is the department's bread-and-butter course. Devised to present a broad, scientific survey, it is not highly mathematical and no severe prerequisites are stipulated. It is an excellent practical distribution course; out of it, the non-Astronomy-major should get a reasonable good grasp of the natures of physical laws, atomic physics, and the universe, and in general an appreciation of the way the scientist solves the problems of nature...
...greatly distressed me with your story about the appointment of one Jose Figuerola to take charge of Argentina's guns-for-butter Five-Year-Plan [TIME, Dec. 16]. Reason for my reaction: the picture you ran and labeled "Blueprinter Figuerola is my own likeness-and I am decidedly not working for Mr. Peron, nor have I ever been in any way connected with Axis activities...