Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only 7% of the U.S.'s productive capacity was busy with defense work. This year it is estimated at 25%. Next year it will be 49%. In 1943, it will be 54%. What this tremendous shift will do to the U.S., in swift shortening of butter supplies in favor of guns, in great blotches of unemployment, no man had the imagination fully to realize...
Commodity brokers had a better time; commodities have less to fear from taxes, more to gain from inflation. All grain futures rose the maximum daily limit; world sugar picked up ten points, cocoa gained 30. After the close traders heard that the Commodity Exchange Administration would freeze wheat, soybean, butter, egg and flaxseed futures at the Monday level...
With all of last year's Varsity butterflies lost through graduation, Sandy Houston excepted, the burden of aiding Houston this year seems about to fall on the shoulders of Sophomores Don Harting and Tony Myrer or any other butter flier who shows any promise whatsoever...
While as a group the Minnesota delegation tops all, there is one Wisconsin Harvardian of my acquaintance who sets the individual record. This sterling product of the great butter-and-egg state condescends to go to the Soldiers Field games, but he never neglects to take along his own private portable radio, which he tunes in on the Badgers, only looking up every now and again just to see what his Second Love is doing down on the field below...
...Catholic effort in the U.S. . . . Protestantism - especially American Protestantism -is now so doctrinally decayed as to be incapable of offering any serious opposition. . . . Except for isolated 'fundamentalists' - and these are pretty thoroughly discredited and without intellectual leader ship - Catholicism would cut through Protestantism as through so much butter." Dr. Maynard is an old hand at stirring up churchmen. As a 19-year-old English man he came to the U.S. in 1909 to study for the Congregational ministry, was promptly fired from his first pulpit for preaching a sermon on "Silly fools, stupid fools and damned fools" which...