Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Says Producer Lancaster: "We've reached the point now where we've stopped thinking about money. Our success has done a nice thing for us. We have the bread and butter. It's been a healthy operation, and it doesn't matter if we have $250,000 or $2,500,000 in the bank. The thing from now on is the fun in moviemaking...
...Plastics used as food wrappers (for fruit, cheeses, meats, butter) and as the inner lining of cans...
...French mock hero of Five A.M. has a bad case of the hoo-ha's. His creator, Jean Dutourd. 36, is an accomplished satirical duelist (A Dog's Head, The Best Butter) who likes nothing better than to blood his pen on the foibles and pomposities of the French middleclass. He subscribes to the Andre Malraux dictum that France is "saturated with lies," and attacks those lies with what the French call "intellectual rigor." In Five A.M. this verges on intellectual rigor mortis, for Author Dutourd finds and leaves his novel's pathetic protagonist more dead than...
...whether there is anything peculiar about fat storage in obese people. Soon they had 32 patients in the institute's hospital, plus ten outpatients, on a low-protein diet with no restriction on the total daily calories-the test subjects could eat as much bread and butter with jam or jelly as they wanted, put sugar and cream in their coffee. Most of them lost weight handsomely while in the hospital. But after they went home and back to eating what they wanted when they wanted it, 52% regained the weight lost, 30% held steady, and 18% kept...
...figures plainly showed, Chrysler's biggest and toughest job is selling. Plymouth, the company's high-volume bread-and-butter car, has dropped from 422,187 units assembled in 1955's first half to 243,541 in the same period this year, the sharpest (42%) slide in the industry. Plymouth's share of total auto production, which stood at 9.92% in 1955's first six months, has fallen to 7.63%. Dodge, the company's No. 2 seller, has fallen from 179,188 units to 108,545, a drop of 40%. Its proportion of auto...