Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year micro-record is a reminder that Americans were offered and bought some odd artifacts-crocodile sofas, mourning handkerchiefs, dog-powered butter churns, solid gold toothpicks with ear-spoon attached, mustache cups ("appropriate gift for the man of elegance") and bosom boards (wooden stiffeners used to shape men's shirts for ironing). In 1905, Sears was offering the "Princess Bust Developer," a bell-shaped cup attached firmly to a handle, and was telling women that IF NATURE HAS NOT FAVORED YOU, the developer would...
...commonly caused by the accumulation of fatty deposits in the arteries hindering the normal flow of blood. This fatty lining has been found in the atreries of nine out of ten monkeys fed on a carefully regulated diet consisting chiefly of saturated fats such as are found in butter, Spry or Crisco in contrast to the unsaturated fats in corn or olive...
...close to his side, and a marksman shot the ace of spades out of his hand. He has been hoisted head-high by Ada Ash, billed as "the world's strongest woman." As his show last week was entering its sixth year for the same sponsor (Skippy Peanut Butter), You Asked's cameras interviewed the dietician for San Diego's zoo, poked into an exhibition of whipcracking and sharpshooting, covered a test cracking of office safes and dived with Navy frogmen in action...
Though he could no longer go to Germany, McLane found he could still make plenty of money there. To PX snack bars he sold, at 21.5? per qt., 250,000 qts. of chocolate milk monthly, all labeled "minimum butter fat content 2.6%." Independent tests in German laboratories showed it was actually skim milk that cost only 10^ per qt. to produce. Though he was forced to cut his price, McLane held on to orders for other dairy products, meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. As he blandly explained, he got and kept his contracts by bribing purchasing officials. Says...
...expect to make a profit." For too long, said he, Britain's aircraft industry has been "looking too hard at the stars and tripping over its own feet," has done too much "talking about tomorrow's jam instead of concentrating on today's bread and butter. The time has come to build more aircraft and fewer models. In my opinion, American jets will not be operating until well into the 19603, by which time the Britannia turboprop and the Comet IV will have been operating for years...