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...Price of Butter. One of their most influential weapons of propaganda is the weekly paper La Terre, an old, well-established agricultural paper which the Reds seized at the liberation. La Terre is unobtainable in Paris, but it sells, or distributes (many copies are given away) 300,000, copies every week in remote farms and tiny villages which are almost untouched by the Paris and big provincial daily newspapers...
...minutes to explain his mission, but uses up the three minutes and nearly an hour more orating to Jones on the minor branches of the Armed Forces. These include the "musical comedy Marines . . . in the Pacific"; the Navy which "sits around . . . eating steak three times a day fried in butter," and the Army which is stalling the war along "until a Ground Forces officer receives the surrender. They'll cheat us [the Air Forces] out of it. Well, by God, we won't leave a sucking soul alive in Germany to surrender! That's what...
...radio address Truman also asked every family to "save a slice of bread every day," and public eating places to "serve bread and butter only by request." This demand will suggest to the Council the reestablishment of the voluntary rationing program of the spring and summer...
...Scare. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange was impressed. It raised margins on butter trading by 66%, on eggs 25%. Many a grain broker privately ordered his customers to post higher margins. But the grain-exchange officials took no heed of Mehl. Board of Trade President J. O. McClintock said firmly: "A margin fixed at an extreme limit is likely to throw . . . the market out of gear...
...losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...