Word: butter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with a supply of two million 10-in-1 army rations-had sent 9,000,000 relief packages to Europe and Asia. This Christmas season, CARE offered 18 varieties of packages, ranging from the $13.50 holiday parcel (including one canned Sell's turkey, 8 oz. Swanson butter, 1 lb. Crosse & Blackwell plum pudding, 1 lb. Welch's orange marmalade, 1 lb. Sun-Maid raisins, 1 lb. Uncle Ben's rice, 1 lb. Co-op coffee and 1 can-opener) to the $10 layette packages (including 1 doz. diapers, 1 crib blanket, 1 receiving blanket, 2 kimonos...
Manners for White Women. Finally, on Pavuvu, part of the division was marked for rotation. Hints on good manners were printed (anonymously) for those going home after two years in the South Seas: "Say 'Please pass the butter.' You DO NOT say, 'Throw down the grease ...' If, while dining at a friend's house you wish more dessert, merely stare at your empty plate until someone catches on. DO NOT say, 'How about seconds on the slop?' " Author McMillan refrains from printing "Personal Manners" instructions on addressing live young white women...
...million pounds of butter...
...very funny female indeed, but in Blondes she suggests the football-playing "heroine" of a varsity show more than the deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her voice that goes suddenly Dixie and suddenly husky, and her simultaneous suggestion that butter wouldn't melt in her mouth and steel bars would bend in her hands, she is not so much a broad caricature as a pure original. She is forced to overdo the whole thing, but in such individual numbers as A Little Girl from Little Rock it richly pays...
Humanitarians & Bureaucrats. For more than half a century, under various parties, insular New Zealand, with its butter and mutton economy, has been an experimental laboratory for welfare statism. Today, social security-paid for by a flat 5% tax on all private and corporate income -includes state-paid old-age pensions, unemployment benefits, medical and hospital care. Industry is heavily regulated, trade unionism and industrial arbitration compulsory. Liberal and conservative governments have shared in the vast social experiments. But ever since the Labor Party took office in 1935, what had begun as a humanitarian drive gradually ossified into bureaucratic socialism...