Word: butterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prices are climbing faster than overall retail prices. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, food has gone up by 3½% in the past year; meat, fish and poultry 7½%, dairy products 5½%. Local situations dramatize the difficulty. In Chicago last week the retail price of butter was 93? per lb., up 12½? from last year. In Detroit, lettuce has gone from 20? a head to 29?, cabbage from 10? to 15? a head, carrots from 19? to 25? per lb. At Boston's Stop & Shop supermarkets, bacon has soared from...
...adequate protection against a domestic crop failure. The supply of soybeans, the dull yellow seed that goes into everything from vegetable oil to paint and constitutes the world's cheapest source of protein, equals just four months' consumption. Five years ago, Government warehouses were jammed with butter and cheese; now they hold none. Washington has had to go into the market to buy dried milk for its program of free school lunches for 50 million children in 52 foreign countries...
...invest $80 billion before 1980 just to feed their growing populations at today's unhappy level. Beyond that, there is a need for chains of agricultural-research centers and schools abroad, partly staffed by an army of young U.S. technicians-one Congressman would call them the "bread and butter corps." Incentives that boost farm output by rewarding it must replace stifling state controls. The old Danish proverb applies: "When the mayor is a baker, the breads are always small...
More soul butter and flapdoodle...
...only thing Geiberger had to worry about after that was running out of peanut butter and jelly. He polished off two sandwiches during the last 18 holes, shot a steady 72 for an even-par total of 280 and a four-stroke victory...