Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 30, the U.S. was holding history's greatest hoard of unsold food and fibers: $6.4 billion worth, including 377 million Ibs. of butter, 550 million Ibs. of cottonseed oil, 743 million bushels of wheat, 2,000,000 Ibs. of tobacco...
...country's eligibility for loans or direct aid from Washington. It has also had a disastrous effect on Brazilian workers. The real wages of many workers in Rio shrank within the past five years, as beef soared from 9 cruzeiros a kilogram in 1950 to 46 today, butter from 34 to no. One of the odder symptoms of mass discontent is the mushroom growth of umbanda or espiritismo, a white-magic religious cult with elaborate African rituals. There were 75,000 registered espiri-tistas in Rio in 1949, 124,000 in 1950; today there are some...
...truth was that both teams had been overloaded with desire for victory-so much so that they ripped each other's defenses to shreds, then bobbled their chances with butter-fingered eagerness. When it wasn't fumbling. Army moved well. Then, like the officers and gentlemen they will some day be, the middies made their guests feel at home with some exasperating fumbles of their own. But aside from that unnecessary politeness, Quarterback George Welsh was able to send his backs scampering for long gains off the Army flanks. And All-America End Ron Beagle was always...
French agriculture lags behind. Surrounded by protective tariffs, quotas and subsidies, French farmers are indulging in the luxury of concentrating on crops with which France is surfeited (e.g., beet root and grapes), while avoiding the very foodstuffs (e.g., meat and butter) which Frenchmen need most and can least afford to buy. Still, most Frenchmen contrive to eat well, choosing to spend a large part of their income on food...
...Luck. In Memphis, suing Ada Jackson for divorce, Scott Jackson testified that she refused to give him butter for his hot biscuits, but did give butter to their boarder...