Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...based on gold. Then it levied a tax of 1,500 gold pounds (about $8) on each of the country's one thousand richest citizens to get additional backing for the currency. By last week the gold cure seemed to be working. In general, prices had stabilized. Cheese, butter and eggs were still high in Athens, but prices of peas, beans and macaroni were steady and Allied shipments of food and civilian goods, which will help keep prices down, were steadily increasing...
...finally, the rampaging Institution trampled all over the popular belief of most U.S. citizens that the roaring economy, by giving the U.S. both guns and butter, has led the nation to a new high plateau of prosperity...
...with extremely experienced voices, the radio-famed McGees will doubtless roll up another million and a half dollars or so for RKO (at an outlay of some $450,000). Films such as theirs, fairly popular in big cities and beloved in the provinces, are aptly known as topnotch bread-&-butter pictures...
...satisfy his hunger completely at any one meal; 2) never to eat sugar (because he believes sugar crystals get in people's blood streams and cause infections). He takes a healthy, if restrained, interest in such substantial items as roast beef, lamb and pork chops, baked potatoes, butter, cream. His present enthusiasm for wheat is more industrial than dietary, like his onetime predictions that roads would some day be paved with coffee beans, and automobiles be made, in part at least, from cantaloupes...
...born and Princeton-bred, he is tall, lean, dark, fastidious, athletic and adventurous, conceals a lively curiosity beneath an air of skeptical and somewhat bored amusement, and is gifted with a sardonic manner which is most effective when directed at waiters who neglect to have his food prepared without butter or his bacon fried to a sufficient crispness. He is also an accomplished journalist, and has been called the rich man's Ernie Pyle. Long a TIME writer, principally of Sport and Cinema, he is now a LIFE editor and war correspondent. Last week he published his second book...