Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Officially five rubles equal one U.S. dollar, but this ratio has no bearing on relative purchasing power. The actual value of the ruble varies from article to article, depending on scarcity and Government decree. A pair of shoes worth $5 may cost 300 rubles. A pound of butter worth 52^ may cost 167 rubles. A fighter plane worth $120,-ooo may have an arbitrarily fixed value of 100,-ooo rubles...
...World. As domestic pressure eases, Jan Smuts shows a sharpening distaste for his country's bread-&-butter politics. More & more Smuts tends to leave affairs at home to his able heir apparent, Hon. Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr. Minister of Finance and Education, and his loyal "Harry Hopkins," Louis Esselen. More & more he tends to see himself in the role he has always cherished: an enlightened, holistic statesman of the Empire and the World. He likes to move at the center of things: he popped up rather unexpectedly at the Cairo Conference last November and met Franklin Roosevelt for the first...
...nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take a picture (see cut) of the new Lama, six-year-old Tuteng Tueh...
...could not do without a woman in his bed, but who would allow into it no woman that was not his wife." This royal singularity Alberoni met with prelatical resourcefulness by promoting the charms of Princess Elisabeth Farnese of Parma as "a good Lombard girl . . . stuffed with butter and Parmesan cheese." Philip mar ried...
...farmhouse, carrying a dead, half-plucked chicken, told the sympathetic farm wife that it was a long time since they had had chicken "like mother used to fix." She cooked the chicken for them, served it on her best china and linen with vegetables, cake and precious butter of her own. After the boys had uttered their profuse thanks and departed, she found that the chicken had been taken from her own henhouse...