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Word: butter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. grocer and butcher, hog-tied by rationing red tape, sadly watched last week while good meat, butter and other foods spoiled in his store. This week the National Association of Retail Grocers sent a sense-making proposal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Rationing Rationalized | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...category for butter, cheese, fish; 3) liberalize meat points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Rationing Rationalized | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...first half of the show, laid in a canteen, moves fast with sentiment, boogie-woogie, corn with butter and salt, corn without them, a male cancan, a brass-hat quartet, which warbles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Canadian Capers | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

...stony mountains still as high, the myriad populations still as strange, the myriad languages still as hard to learn. They deceive themselves who say this globe has shrunk to a convenient size, to a neighborhood whose men can greet each other at corners and whose women can borrow butter across the fence. The truth has been lost in a metaphor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNICATIONS: What They See in the Papers | 4/19/1943 | See Source »

Slogan Slugged. In St. Paul, state senators voted to hurry the repeal of a law requiring that all state letterheads carry the slogan "Eat More Butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 5, 1943 | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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