Word: butter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This isn't so remarkable when one considers that last year 'Cliffe-dwellers polished off five tons of roast lamb, four tons of roast beef, three tons of ham, and almost two tons of butter. As if this weren'nt cough, they topped it off with 12,300 eggs and close to 300 gallons of ice cream...
Break this down into per capita consumption and each girl accounts for 11 pounds of beef, nine of lamb, a more three gallons of ice cream, and just over four pounds of butter. Over the course of a full year, this means that the average student receives meat at least 12 times a week, ice cream usually twice a week, and generous supplies of butter at all meals except dinner...
...Finger In Butter. The French expedition had chugged out at dawn from its downriver base. From the undergrowth ashore sounded warning signals-rifle shots that said the French were coming...
...extended squad formation. They made no contact with the enemy. An air liaison officer had called out three fighter planes (P-63 Kingcobras) for reconnaissance and strafing. As they circled overhead, sometimes diving earthward, a lieutenant said, "It's always like this-like pushing your finger into butter. The butter spreads and when you pull your finger out you don't have much. Well, anyway, when the Viet Minh come out of hiding they'll find life difficult with no rice or boats...
Buttermakers thought that Congress had picked the worst possible time to repeal oleo taxes, for butter prices have been slipping and surpluses mounting. Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture bought up 239,000 lbs. of butter to support the wholesale price at 60? a lb., thereby adding to its huge 86 million-lb. stock of surplus butter...