Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uses about 1.1 billion pounds of butter a year. Because the dairy industry has been producing a lot more than that, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has had to buy 900 million pounds since 1952 under the dairy price support program. By mid-1954 surplus butter had reached the staggering weight of 467 million pounds, more than enough to supply the country's needs for four months. It began to look as if there was no hope of melting the butter surplus...
...years more than 600 million pounds were donated for welfare use (e.g., school lunches) at home and abroad, and some 300 million pounds were sold, some at reduced prices for export. Last week Benson announced the startling results of his efforts: the U.S. Government is fresh out of surplus butter, will go into the peak milk-producing season beginning April 1 without an unsold pound on its shelves...
Those who threaten to resign from Students for Eisenhower if this proposal is passed show themselves to be only "bread and butter" Eisenhower supporters. May I urge all of our members to consider the arguments rationally and prove that SFE is truly a clear-headed and independent organization. Morton Korn '57, Chairman, Students for Eisenhower...
...transgression was the month's flouting of the Overseers' ban on "dining and supping in private homes." Eventually the Overseers beat down the strike. The Board didn't blame the students entirely, rather it resolved, "that there has been great neglect in the Steward in the quality of the Butter provided by him for many weeks past...
...even held over for a few years when he sought to resign. This was more for his politics than his provender, however; the Overseers refused to accept the Corporation's replacement because he sympathized with the British, a fault which Hastings, for all his love of Irish butter, didn't have. Indeed, from 1771 on, the Gambrel-roofed house had rung with patriotic oratory, as members of the Speakers' Club, flanked by six candles and using a piece of two by four as a rostrum, declaimed weekly against the British...