Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make "ghee" of butter [Feb. 14] when there are plenty of people who have not tasted butter for years and could afford it if it were 40^?or even 50? a pound...
...haven't eaten butter since I was a WAC in Africa . . . With butter selling at 70? a Ib. and vegetable fats selling for 28?, my family eats the frugal choice. However, is that a good reason to give it away at 42?? If I could buy butter at 64? a Ib. (the price we taxpayers paid), I'd buy ten pounds at a time without its affecting my margarine purchases . . . If my example is any criterion, the Department of Agriculture's bitter butter problem could be solved in a few short weeks . . . Golly, I'd like...
This week Louis H. Burgwald of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was touring India with samples of U.S. ghee made from surplus butter. If Indian dairymen like it, William G. Lodwick. an Iowa farmer, now Administrator of the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service, may have solved the U.S. surplus-butter problem. (Size of the problem: a Government-owned hoard of 260 million Ibs., worth $168 million...
...great shortage of it. Since then U.S. dairies have worked on the problem, samples have been sent to Pakistan, endless embassy discussions have been held. Pakistan is willing to pay 42? a delivered pound, a loss to the U.S. of about 28? a pound. Although the U.S.-owned butter is now in cold storage, it may eventually spoil, and the Government will lose the 64? it paid for the average pound. There is no problem in storing ghee. In fact, some tasty Indian ghee has been kept 100 years...
...Department of Agriculture, desperately trying to get rid of its butter without disrupting the markets of friendly nations, is cautiously excited about the great ghee plan. It might be the greatest idea in international farm trade since Mark Twain's Colonel Mulberry Sellers dreamed of a great sales organization-with its headquarters in Constantinople and its hindquarters in Further India-to sell patented eyewash to ophthalmia-ridden Orientals...