Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bussed on both brown cheeks by President Coty of France. Cattle connoisseurs paid millions of francs for Marie's offspring, and Marie repaid their confidence. She broke the world record last year by producing a phenomenal 24,967 Ibs. in 330 days-enough for 1,658 Ibs. of butter...
...hundred!" Busily they searched around for field hands and superior officials. A guide explained: "Two things still trouble them: Where are all the other workers, and who specifically tells each farmer what to plant?" In the Soviet Union, after 38 years of Communism, production of some major foods (meat, butter, milk) has fallen below czarist levels; in Iowa, during the same period, production has increased 60%. One visiting Russian last week credited Iowa's prosperity to good weather. "Our rainfall is so much less," he said. At the end of their first week in Iowa, the Russians had said...
...Canada, as in the U.S., government farm price-support programs have piled up mountains of butter and wheat. Last week Canada arranged two neat deals to sell part of the worrisome surplus behind the Iron Curtain for cash. To Red-run Czechoslovakia will go 300,000 lbs. of butter at 42½? a lb.-15½? less than the government's own purchasing price. For $19 million, grain-hungry Poland will get 10 million bu. of low-grade wheat...
...with General Douglas MacArthur's Rainbow Division in France. He came out with a Silver Star and a first lieutenant's silver bar. After the war he waited three years before marrying his wife Clara, a minister's daughter, because (she later explained) "the price of butter was too high" and money was short...
Ecstasy in Minutes. His reforms were radical. In the kitchen chaos of the old regime, for example, one cook took 15 minutes to prepare Eggs Meyerbeer. Under Escoffier's system of specialists, an entre-mettier baked the eggs in butter, a ròtisseur grilled the kidney, a saucier dished up the truffle sauce, and a gourmet was made ecstatic in only a few minutes. Traditionally, a luncheon for 40 might consist of 40 courses, and a dinner might last 18 hours, but Escoffier forged a new concept, replacing Gargantuan plenitude and baroque splendor with classic simplicity. His menus...