Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ahead. The overall problem of the overall board is to convince the U.S. public finally that gun production really means not just less butter but less real civilian income. The further task is to make the Government strong enough and well enough organized to exact the necessary sacrifices equitably...
...Labor unanimously contended that OPA's effort to roll back the prices of meat, coffee and butter to the September 1942 level was not enough because wages were fixed at the May 1942 price level...
...Reichswehr special" trains, sealed and guarded by Swedish soldiers, packed each day with 1,000 German troops being relieved at Oslo and replaced by fresh troops from Germany. The sight of well-fed Germans hanging out of train windows, yoohooing at Swedish girls, and carrying packages of food, butter and herrings out of starving Oslo is almost too much to stomach. So much public pressure has built up that a secret session of the Riksdag last week was reported to have considered means of ending the traffic. That problem was the key to the diplomacy by which Sweden has survived...
...Rubinstein, or Walter Gieseking. But in everything involving sheer, crystalline dexterity, Vladimir Horowitz tops every one of them. Son of a Kiev electrical engineer, nephew of a Russian music critic, Vladimir Horowitz gave his first concerts during the dog days of the Russian revolution. He was sometimes paid in butter, flour and cabbages...
Cabbage for Frenchmen. The only unrationed foods in France are rutabagas, topinambous (Jerusalem artichokes) and cabbage. Rationing applies to restaurants as well as stores. The combined butter, fat and oil ration is about three and a half ounces a week a person (compared to eight ounces in Britain). For five precious coupons, a Frenchman supping at a restaurant is lucky to get watery soup, a dab of meat, an inch-square wafer of cheese. The French wine allowance is six liters (about six quarts) monthly a person...