Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME, Nov. 28, 1949). He has also supplied much of the money behind Hotelman Conrad Hilton's buying ventures, is now the biggest stockholder (8.7%) after Hilton in the Hilton Hotels Corp. Singlehanded. Crown bought the 19-story Chicago Mercantile Building, which houses the Midwest's butter & egg exchange...
...demands, variously estimated at 30? to 50?-an-hour increase per worker.* Instead, Steel ducked tidily for cover behind the steelmen's laws of economics: any major wage increase would mean an automatic increase in the price of steel, the basic commodity of both phases of a guns & butter economy. Said U.S. Steel'^ President Ben Fairless: "The nation cannot now afford another general round of substantial wage increases and the higher prices which must inevitably result. . . There should be no wage or price increase' at this" time...
Ways & Means. In financing the guns & butter gamble, the U.S. made out better than anybody expected, but only because the spending on guns fell behind. Instead of the deficit everybody predicted, the Treasury actually ended fiscal 1951 in June with a $3.5 billion surplus. If arms spending continues to lag, the cash budget will probably still be in balance through fiscal 1952. But in the fiscal year starting next June, all Government spending will rise to an estimated $80 to $85 billion (nearly $65 billion of it for arms). With only $70 billion in estimated revenues under present tax laws...
...civilian sector of the economy, and the services do not get together on priorities. Last week, tired of waiting on the Pentagon, Wilson announced he would set up his own priority system for weapons. These difficulties will not disappear simply by deciding to have more guns, less butter...
Consuming Ambition. In Boston, Dancer Carolina Hall, 22, 140 lbs., sat down to a $12 restaurant breakfast of 1) 20 rolls, 2) 24 pats of butter, 3) one pint of cider, 4) a triple chef's salad, 5)3 four-egg cheese omelette, 6) a double order of French fries, 7) four pieces of toast, 8) a double portion of strawberry shortcake, 9) one slice of chocolate layer cake, 10) one piece of cheesecake, 11) one pear tart, 12) one cheese sandwich, 13) one egg salad sandwich, 14) two portions of mocha nut cake, 15) a dessert of cottage...