Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons for standing aloof from Europe was the prohibitive cost of war, "there is nothing in the New Deal statement that we can have both butter and guns; inflation, false prosperity, and an inevitably lower standard of living are the sure results...
...cheerfully, as if they knew that he could wear gold braid and bark commands if he wanted to-as if he might, when the time came. There had been rumors in the First Class that guns were being run out, that there might soon even be a shortage of butter in the dining saloon...
...loaf of bread, a chunk of meat the size of a half dollar, a few crumbs of cheese, enough potatoes for five slices if fried (and if he had something to fry them in), less than enough sugar to sweeten a cup of unobtainable coffee, less than enough butter to fry an egg (if he could find...
...typical meal at Dudley consists of chicken croquettes, grean peas, mashed potatoes, rolls and butter, milk, and apple pie--and all for 30 cents. All of the meals are prepared at the Union together with the Union's regular noon day meals...
...more pairs of shoes a year were suddenly ordered-he could see the hundreds of factories, the machine-tool plants, the nails, thread, leather, the railroad carloads of materials. He multiplied shoes by the 18,000-odd separate items he must buy for defense, from guns to butter, and got one sure answer: a revitalization of U. S. industry and therefore...