Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When buttermen refused to sell at his prices, he imported Argentine butter and sold it at low prices until he broke them down. When cheap cloth got scarce, he compelled all cotton mills to produce one tenth of their export cloth in popular styles, had the goods sold at "yardstick" prices through portable street stores. They were mobbed by pushing housewives, and soon cloth prices in regular stores went down. In some cases of speculation or hoarding, he turned to outright requisition...
Ration Point. In Chicago, William H. Jones looked out his window, saw his dog frozen on point, followed directions, found a hole in the ground, dug up a pound of butter...
...George consumed at a sitting "six dozen Cotuit oysters, a two-quart tureen of mock turtle soup, a roast . . . weighing just under six pounds, four steak . . . slabs of cold Virginia ham, a dozen scones filled with whipped cream, three bottles of claret, 18 bottles of beer, and countless . . . rolls, butter, radishes, coffee, and sweet oddments." At Bleeck's too, Actress Helen Hayes found Playwright Nunnally Johnson "beating his third wife, whom he had married that afternoon, over the head with a silver-handled umbrella, a wedding present . . . screaming the while: 'You'll never have my autograph, woman...
...Quietly buried in the drowsy Agriculture Committee a bill to remove the discriminatory taxes on oleomargarine, which keep it from undercutting butter...
...busy for such things for the rest of 1943. She explained: "They're all war workers." Among them: diamond-studded Mrs. Byron Foy, Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Church Phelps, Consuelo Vanderbilt Smith Davis Warburton. Eaten: supreme of melon in port wine, boned squab with white grapes new peas in butter, hearts of endive and beet roots and fine herbs, floating heart ice cream with figs, petit fours, demitasse. It was meatless Tuesday...