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...Senate's master of the large hello, a flag-waving, gladhanding, back-patting, butter-spreading statesman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: A Big Job for a Big Man | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...discovered the strain in 1886). Brucellae infect cattle, sheep, goats and pigs, cause a disease known as contagious abortion. Between 11 and 20% of all U.S. cattle are infected, causing a yearly loss to farmers of some $80,000,000. The disease is transmitted to man through milk, butter, cheese, and through handling of infected carcasses; it is not passed from one person to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fever from Milk | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...effect, they denied that the choice before the U.S. was between guns and butter. All that was needed, they insisted, was a choice between guns and automobiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: Guns v. Automobiles? | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...full meaning of this statement was made explicit last week by a New Zealand butter-&-egg man named William Goodfellow, who passed across the U.S. on his way to Britain. William Goodfellow, who is managing director of Amalgamated Dairies, Ltd., of Auckland, stated that "about" 24 out of a fleet of 60 refrigerator ships which had plied from New Zealand to Britain via the Panama Canal had been sunk. Said Dairyman Goodfellow: "There are several million carcasses of mutton and lamb [in New Zealand warehouses] awaiting shipment. We also have an excess of 20,000 tons of butter-with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Fateful Figures | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...less buying power to spend on himself than he had twelve years ago. Reason: taxes. Although the U.S. is producing more real wealth than ever before in history, much more of the wealth goes for bureaucracy, much more of it for guns, and only what is left is for butter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shades of '29 | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

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