Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remedy sounded much like those of his Socialist predecessors, Cripps and Gaitskell: more austerity. Imports will be slashed $1 billion, partly by reducing purchases of canned meats, sugar products and fruits in Europe, paring another 2? off the tiny meat ration (total: two small chops weekly), buying less butter, bacon and cheese. The dreary British menu will be thinner and less nourishing than it was after Dunkirk. British tourists will find it more difficult to take steak-hunting vacations on the Continent: their annual foreign travel allowance will be decreased to $140 apiece. There will be fewer housing starts; government...
Then one morning, Dr. Itten spotted a newspaper notice of the death of Titus Kammerer, host to Nikolai Lenin during his exile in Switzerland. Hastening to the bereaved home, Itten struck a bargain with Kammerer's son for a tea glass, a strainer and two butter knives, the only mementos left behind by Russia's revolutionary deity. Itten completed the deal just as a Soviet delegation drove...
...before, he had made his last campaign speech in Waltham-stow and sat on the platform afterwards with head in hand, too beaten to do more than stare in mild astonishment as a rabble-rousing platform mate ranted about "millions in America who can't afford to buy butter." Election night he went to a local Socialist club to hear the returns. He sat with his back to the board, seldom turning to watch it. Every now & then Mrs. Attlee would glance at the results and pat her husband on the shoulder as he sipped his tea. By Friday...
...political police headquarters, a banquet was laid out: bread with no butter, salami and a bottle of lemonade for each returning traveler. "Much better than American chocolate," insisted one loyal Communist woman to Zdenka...
...mass production. They are chewing up supplies at the rate of $8 billion a quarter, will use still more until the peak of $10 billion a quarter is reached in the last quarter of 1952. By then, if Wilson's calculated risk on maintaining a guns-and-butter economy proves sound, the tremendously expanded production will be pouring out enough additional steel and aluminum to end the worst metal shortages and allow civilian production to start rising again...