Word: butterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...strike, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway the minute the strike had ended. "What can you say about a strike," says DeVer Sholes, the association's director of research and statistics...
...Negro or otherwise. Like the Catholic priests of Chicago who once engaged in labor-union organizing, these men have mulled over the position of the black poor and American power relations, the complexities of both, and have what can only be described as a "hard-nosed," or "bread-and-butter" approach...
Running ahead of everybody else, according to local polls, is State Treasurer William Winter, 44, who by Ole Miss standards is practically a radical. Winter started off his campaign with the hope that it would be devoted to "bread-and-butter issues, not the old emotional ones-not racial issues...
...come into its own in the white, teen-dominated pop market. "It satisfies a thirst for the idiomatic, the untrammeled, the pure," explains Atlantic's other vice president and co-owner, Jer ry Wexler, 50. "After all that farina and honey, the audience wants some cornbread and butter...
Prime Minister Keith J. Holyoake's Cabinet decided on drastic measures to recoup some of the loss. These include ending state subsidies on such staples as bread and butter, longtime features of New Zealand's elaborate welfare system. Taxes on gasoline, tobacco and liquor have gone up. The nation's imports and bank loans have been curtailed, and down payments for installment buying increased...