Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pair struck the Union twice, with home-made bombs of butyric acid, a chemical described as smelling "like a combination of rancid butter and decaying Parmesan cheese...
...stops at all the tourist musts-the Lincoln Memorial, Supreme Court, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of Art and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Every few minutes, up to eight times an hour, reverence for the nation's shrines had somehow to be combined with the bread-and-butter necessity of working in commercials. Home solved the problem by moving Arlene in front of a plain backdrop whenever it was time to deliver the hard sell, and she switched effortlessly from the wonders of Washington to the durability of Latex paint or the tastiness of Star-Kist tuna...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson last week gave a progress report on his program to shrink the mountain of surplus U.S. dairy products by lower price supports and a huge giveaway program. Lower price supports so spurred consumption that Benson was able to cut new purchases of butter by 45%, of cheese by 66%, of dried milk by 21%. Under the giveaway program, the U.S. in 1954 distributed a total 1.7 billion Ibs. of excess butter, cheese and dried milk, much of it free to welfare agencies at home and abroad, treble the amount disposed of in 1953. Together...
They argued that if a child got butter at noon, his family would cut his suppertime butter portion at home...
...same kind of scuffle dusts up the question of how the surpluses shall be paid for. FOA and the State Department like arrangements that help foreign nations develop their resources, e.g., Peru's recent $3,630,000 loan from the U.S., to buy wheat and butter, included $2,000,000 to complete a huge irrigation system. The Defense Department and the Treasury prefer deals by which foreign currencies help defray U.S. costs abroad. But not surprisingly, countries where the U.S. has military bases or expensive economic missions figure that the U.S. will have to pay its expenses anyway...