Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armed services will take 40% of the U.S. butter supply in April, and 55% in May, more than double the take in butter-short February and March...
...17th Airborne Division. Two nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
Second, there was Marvin Jones, War Food Administrator. He was worried about the decline in civilian food supply. Very few civilians had to be told by Marvin Jones that they were getting less meat, butter and eggs. Marvin Jones wanted to keep the supply from shrinking...
...microbes as minuscule chemical factories has been practiced, if not understood, since the first butter was churned, the first wine pressed, the first beer brewed. Spurred by advances in the field of biochemistry and the pressures of two wars, the employment of microbe labor has recently spread to a whole new field of chemical manufacture. Little is known of the actual metabolic process by which microbes work, but by careful control and endless experiment chemists and biologists, working together, have been able to set them hundreds of chemical tasks...
...Butter & Egg Man. Well might the old banker, who had begun his career as a butter & egg merchant in the Balkans, smile in the topiary trimness of his beard. What tides of political refugees had swept through Europe since the beginning of this century! Each had left its human sediment or drift in Switzerland. The Count was sharing the sanctuary from which Lenin and his fellow fugitives had conspired to overthrow the Russian empire. Later the fugitives from Lenin, the White Russians, had sought a haven of safety. In little more than a decade many who had laughed...