Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Production had been excessive, all right. Outlays for dairy-product supports jumped 20% this year. Piled up in federal storage depots as of Dec. 1 were 12,500 tons of dried milk, 17,000 tons of butter, 89,000 tons of cheese. But politicos from dairy-farm states predictably joined Republican Burdick in bipartisan booing at Benson's announcement. ''A shocking injustice!" cried Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire. "A mistake!" snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken, an old Benson defender. Said Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey: "Mr. Benson has taken the place of Scrooge...
...This brought a warning from Dr. John Seabury Hathaway, director of the university's department of public health, and Dr. John Woodruff Ewell, assistant director: "The normal, healthy individual can readily precipitate kidney stone formation by the simple ingestion of excessive mineral salts [in] ice cream, cheese, butter [and] milk . . . A good rule of thumb to insure ample dilution: two glasses of water for each glass of milk...
...greatest anxiety," the dismal picture of the "City of the World." The U.S., said he, would have to work harder on defense, expand foreign aid. But it could by no means back out on any of its welfare programs, e.g., "education, slum clearance, health, social security." Guns plus butter, Stevenson admitted, would "take a lot of money." How could it be done? And what about inflation? Quipped Adlai Stevenson: "Well, that's another speech-probably for a Republican...
...service. It was a very funny matter when, even after the book had been cut to exclude references to every war since and including the American Revolution, it was still not approved. Gales of laughter went up at the story that the Pentagon would not tell how much peanut butter the Army consumed for fear such knowledge would give the Russians an indication of our manpower strength. But the "laughter has an echo that is grim...
...them, many are on the verge of breakdown. Spare parts are urgently needed for dredges and other equipment used to keep the Suez Canal operating. Lubricating oil is so scarce that gas-station operators supply only favorite customers. Because of Nasser's controls, meat prices are soaring, and butter, tea and coffee are scarce. Many Cairo restaurants refuse to serve cabob because they cannot sell it for a profit. "Nasser," said one observer last week, "is facing an economic crisis that compares with the military crisis he faced last year...