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...have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: Babassu, Have You Any Soap? | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

Furthermore the butter, so golden and freshly churned, was by autumn melting off the arms boom. For the first time in 24 years, the Land of Plenty confronted shortages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom, Shortages, Taxes, War | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

...Washington the old argument of guns v. butter collapsed like a ten-year-old inner tube. The tire ban proved how swiftly the Government could and would take away from Peter civilian to give to armed forces Paul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSUMERS: The Pinch Begins | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Europe is appalling....It is difficult to give an explanation...one can fall back on the equanimity of the Chinese, but the differences in nutrition of Chinese and Westerners may give a better explanation." Arteriosclerosis begins by the seeping of fat into bloodvessel walls. The Chinese do not eat butter, fat, or other dairy products rich in fat, such as milk and cheese. In fact, said Dr. Snapper, the fatty acids present in their cooking oils may help to prevent arteriosclerosis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Torments of China | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

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