Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newshen May Craig was worried about the Government's huge surplus butter stores (TIME, April 6), and Ike indicated that he was worried too. He hoped that Congress would give him the responsibility for finding outlets for the butter before it spoils. It would be a crime to civilization and to ourselves, he added, to allow it to spoil. He couldn't imagine anything worse when people are hungry...
Many experts think that perishable commodities such as butter and potatoes should have no price supports at all. For nonperishables, such as corn, cotton, and wheat, the best solution may be a system of flexible price supports, which would allow at least a partial functioning of the law of supply & demand. Flexible supports would mean that when a surplus mounted, the U.S. could reduce its support prices, thus discourage overproduction of the next crop...
When he took office, said Benson, the Government owned 37 million lbs. of butter, 7 million lbs. of cheese, 56 million lbs. of dried milk. This supercolossal milk bar had been assembled to help the farmer and the industry maintain prices. But what was the actual effect of the Government program? The dairy industry was losing the public market because of "abnormally high prices" maintained by the Government. Benson cited the decline in butter and the use of competitive substitutes such as margarine and other spreads. In ten years, he pointed out, butter sales per consumer had dropped almost...
...challenge facing their industry, to convert their "problems" into "opportunities," to improve techniques, to cut costs and thereby lower prices, to seek new outlets. "No industry thrives on a shrinking volume of business. We need an expanding, growing market ... If the Government still owns any appreciable amount of butter when 1954 arrives, I hope all of us will frankly admit our failures...
...began with a simple bread & butter note that Harold J. Laski, 23, sent to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, 75, one day in 1916. Laski, then an instructor in government at Harvard, assured the Great Dissenter that "you teach our generation how we may hope to live," pressed a couple of books on him, and begged permission to "write sometimes and ask you questions." In the next two decades, Briton Laski asked precious few questions of Yankee Holmes, and frequently he wrote three or four letters to Holmes's one, but the sparks flying between two well-charged minds produced...