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...Quietly buried in the drowsy Agriculture Committee a bill to remove the discriminatory taxes on oleomargarine, which keep it from undercutting butter...
...bunch of naked blind men trying to pick each other's pockets with pitchforks." When Ameringer picked up his pitchfork against the Axis in post-Pearl Harbor days, pacifist subscribers canceled the paper out of existence. Said Ameringer: "Running a labor paper is like feeding melted butter on the end of a hot awl to an infuriated wildcat...
...distillers, and distillers blamed the public for: i) supporting black markets, 2) refusing to switch from whiskey to relatively plentiful drinks. "The public is behaving very badly about the liquor situation," moaned a Hiram Walker man in Chicago. "When they go to a store and can't get butter, they realize there's a war on. But when they can't get whiskey, they raise hell...
...months. When rationing of canned goods and other foods turned many a small grocer into a coupon-counting insomniac, he launched his pointless store. He shrewdly stocked an 18-by-60-ft. store with hundreds of unrationed items, included "something almost as good" for all rationed foods. For butter and oleomargarine he had apple butter, honey and tomato preserves; for meat, chicken and turkey a la king (in glass jars), fish flakes, packaged spaghetti with cheese and tomato sauce; dehydrated and powdered soups for canned...
...trouble began last March when the college published Researcher Oswald H. Brownlee's pamphlet, Putting Dairying on a War Footing. The fifth in a series of frank and popularly written studies of wartime farm economics, this pamphlet stated that margarine is as palatable and nutritious as butter, is more sensible to produce in wartime because it requires less manpower...