Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With $600 in savings, the young couple traveled south and rented a farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. In that valley, Grandma bore ten children and raised the five that survived birth. There, too, she supplemented the family income by making butter and potato chips (a novelty in those times) for sale to the neighbors...
...minutes; turn out cake and cool thoroughly. Chocolate frosting: combine 2 squares baking chocolate, ½cup granulated sugar and ¼ cup of water in saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat, add 4 egg yolks and beat thoroughly. Cool. Cream ¼ cup butter or margarine with 1teaspoon vanilla. Blend in gradually 2 cups sifted confectioners' sugar, creaming well. Remove ⅓ cup of mixture to decorate cake, nut side up. To the rest add cool chocolate mixture; beat until smooth. Decorate with spare white frosting...
...white collar man, a prospective management official, seems a different bread from the technically trained men who produce the industry's bread and butter, airplanes. Little advice can be given about job opportunities, starting salaries, or benefits for the desk man compared to the laborer or the technician. The lack of recruiting at the college level is starting because these are the men who will eventually run the concern. There is often no definite way in which the liberal arts graduate gets into the concern. He may know a family friend who will give him his initial chance...
...money before the fortnight was up. Last week he not only failed to get an expected raise; he got no wages at all. His enemy, the calendar, had caused a three-week gap between paydays. He went home broke and disgruntled. There was nothing but macaroni and butter beans for dinner. He choked them down. But he rose during the night with a glitter in his eye, got his wrench, opened four hydrants and let every drop in the town's 183,000-gallon reservoir slosh merrily down the streets. "You're fired!" cried Cleves's Mayor...
...dairy industry has developed one of the most ambitious plans to get rid of the enormous surpluses now held by the Government. It suggests that the Government sell back to the trade, at a loss, its entire stock of dairy products (the loss leader: 250 million Ibs. of surplus butter). Then distributors, presumably, would resell it to the public in a giant bargain sale...