Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...commodities, a policy which is not only condemned by foreign nations, but is opposed by the U.S. itself when other nations practice it. Furthermore, the U.S. angers its friends almost every time it tries to get rid of its surpluses abroad at competitive prices. Example: U.S. attempts to sell butter abroad, said Chairman William Marshall of New Zealand's Dairy Products Marketing Commission, constitute "pure and unadulterated dumping of surpluses" in violation of international trade agreements...
Last year the Commodity Credit Corp. sold $506 million worth of surpluses abroad at competitive prices, and gave away another $150 million. But this was less than half of what CCC bought from U.S. farmers. It offered 375 million Ibs. of butter, was able to sell only 1.4 million Ibs. It offered 20 million bushels of oats, sold only 3.5 million. CCC did not even try to sell its vast holdings of twelve other commodities, including cotton and wool, and wheat, the biggest surplus of all (661 million bushels in inventory). In most cases the reason for holding back...
...United Kingdom has for Argentine meat, often make it impossible for the U.S. to work into new markets. In Hong Kong there is a rule that 25% of the cotton used by the crown colony's mills must come from Commonwealth sources. When the U.S. offered to sell butter to France so that every schoolchild would get a pat of butter with his lunch. French dairymen objected...
Shepard has replaced Jim Rahal at third base Don Butter, last year's leading bitter with .307, in an effort to add power to the lineup. Butters was the tam's most valuable player and the R.B.I. leader last year...
...bothered by the noise and brooding atmosphere of the Union, Mrs. Corballis enjoys her work. "Noise means company and we get plenty of company." Although too young to remember the butter-flipping wars, she recalls the oddly-dressed student who staggered in during a football weekend. Flouting the University rule on eating attire, the freshman, wearing only shorts, tie, and coat, sauntered into the hall and jumped from table top to table top. His exploits, however, won him a suspension. But to Mrs. Corballis such a prank is the exception. "The hall is usually very calm...