Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...looks, smells and tastes like the very best butter, and it may be on your butter plate at one of the nation's best hotels-yet it may not be butter at all. Secret of the pale gold ersatz product is a new "butter culture" called Extrin, which makes white vegetable shortening (Crisco and Spry are trademarked examples) taste and look like real butter...
...spoke truly-but too late. Everywhere the people could see that a year's indecision and vacillation had finally caught up with Claude Wickard and the Administration. Civilians were told they could have only half the amount of canned goods they ate last year. Black meat markets flourished. Butter stocks were at the lowest point in 18 years. Even Claude Wickard finally had to recognize that the land of plenty had become a land of scarcity...
...White House correspondents' dinner (wartime note: no butter, no coffee) in Washington's new and flamboyant Statler Hotel, Franklin Roosevelt gave his first extended account of the Casablanca conference and what was planned there. It was a speech filled with the most self-assured phrases Franklin Roosevelt has yet uttered on the course of World...
...that the blitz is past, the plot has turned to the work of decontamination quads, convoy defense, firewatching, visits to the symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...
...Most feared man in the dairy-conscious Wisconsin Legislature is greying, voluble John E. Cashman, 79, who is against smoking, drinking, oleomargarine and foreigners. Two years ago he lambasted England as imperialistic, fought hard for U.S. isolation. Last week he asked his colleagues to memorialize Congress not to send butter-at least not good Wisconsin butter-to America's Allies, especially Russia. On second thought, he agreed that his hated oleomargarine would be all right for Russia...