Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pitting of farmer against labor here in Minnesota in a divide-and-rule program has long been Republican and Farm Bureau strategy, and proposed anti-labor legislation has been particularly vicious. Farmers would like to have dollar-a-pound butter but don't want labor to get the dollar to buy it with. . . . The farm attitude expressed by the head of a large producer cooperative in Minnesota was put in these startling words: "When there is enough butter, there is too much!" Mr. Ball ought to realize that the farmers have been on a sit-down strike...
...chamber walked California's Helen Gahagan Douglas with a shopping basket which she toted right up to the microphone. She had used the same shopping list last June, when the items in the basket totaled $10. Now, in a horrifying crescendo, she rattled off the post-OPA increases: butter, from 65? to 82?; eggs, 53? to 69?; two pounds of pork chops ("the poor man's meat"), 76? to $1.46. The new total...
...Agriculture Department intends to end the present butter subsidy. That meant that the price of butter would soon be going...
Cheering wildly, Czechs in the grandstands threw their silver cigaret lighters to the Austrians. So many gifts of butter, meat, poultry, chocolate and liquor piled in on the Axa Hotel, where the Austrians were staying, that the management turned the lobby into a temporary warehouse. Flags flew in Brno. Pilsen begged the Austrians to visit its best hotel. And in two coal mines of Ostrava, miners promised to work two extra shifts digging coal for Austria. In hockey-happy Czechoslovakia the joke of the week was a cartoon showing a man carrying a bag overflowing with rare food. "Stop...
...Butter. 3. Heavy metals. 5. Wheat...