Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cautiously, under a butter-colored moon, U.S. 3rd Division patrols reconnoitered the last eight miles to Messina. The stony Sicilian landscape flashed now & then with snipers' fire. The road was edged with the menace of mines, booby traps and demolition chasms. But clearly the stubborn, skillful, beaten enemy had pulled out. At 5:30 a.m., Aug. 17, Lieutenants Jeff McNeely and Ralph Yates led patrols into Messina. The Battle of Sicily, 38 days after it had begun, was over...
...longer cheap in a country where $14 a week is a good wage for a good stenographer and a man in the higher-income brackets may earn $50 a week. Money, for that matter, does not mean very much; there is so little Australians can buy: eight ounces of butter and two ounces of tea a week, no canned food. Milkmen and bakers are restricted to zones. Grocers and butchers make no deliveries. There are not enough houses, apartments or even hotel rooms...
...bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn, a dish of green field peas, ice tea and hot biscuits with country butter. For dessert there was a generous piece of banana cream pie with real whipped cream...
They will have more pork, eggs, chickens, fluid milk, fats, oranges, potatoes and beans. They will have less beef, lamb, fish, fruits and vegetables, sugar, rice, tea, cocoa, butter, cheese...
Researcher Brownlee had been disturbed: the U.S. would be short of some 20 billion pounds of milk this year. He felt that it was practically sinful to use good whole milk to make butter, the least nutritious of all milk products. He calculated that enough margarine to replace butter completely could be produced from half the crop land and with an eighth the labor. He favored removing Federal and State taxes and other restrictions by which dairy-state Congressmen have long hamstrung the sale of margarine...