Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...national debt of 100 billion dollars almost certainly loomed ahead. Ahead too might be inflation, a credit expansion out of sight and beyond control, rationing, priorities, guns-before-butter, taxes to ruin every season in the year. The one thing anyone could be sure of was that the U. S. was humping dizzily up that first clanking climb of the roller coaster on the way to a screaming whoosh beyond. Maybe everything was quiet, pleasant and peaceful on the other side-but people guessed...
Last week a thankful father and mother met Axel on a Jersey City pier and took him home to their modest flat. Axel greeted callers by bowing stiffly from the waist. What amazed Axel was the amount of butter on his mother's table. What amazed his mother was the way, when she started to turn on the lights, little Axel shouted to her to wait, then rushed to the windows and pulled down the shades...
...less explicit when he said: "[There are] no serious shortages in aluminum . . . now required for national defense. Certain temporary delays in delivery will doubtless occur. ..." That ALCOA could supply defense demands without curtailing its ordinary commercial business, Mr. Stettinius noticeably failed to promise. Guns already had priority over butter knives...
...very small man multiplied a millionfold. He is just an Englishman. He was born in the country, or in one of the big cities of the Midlands, or in a grey house in a London suburb. The hands that reared him were hard. His food was tepid or cold: butter and bread, jam and strong black tea, mutton and what was left over of the Sunday joint. His boyhood was tough. At school he was caned. He grew to know history in a simple way; he grew to love his King as he loved the mist in the park...
...hope that Defense spending might be a short cut to plenty and graceful living. The imminence of rationing in steel, in aluminum, in tools, in a dozen lesser consumer-goods necessities made 1941 look like an uncomfortable year. In 1940, consumers did benefit; 1940 produced more guns and more butter. But 1941 would have to produce still more guns and-perhaps-less butter...