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...Following his hopeful custom, the President asked all department & bureau heads to butter their expense estimates for fiscal 1941 with statements of anticipated economies. Mr. Roosevelt said: "I believe that substantial savings can be effected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off the Floor | 8/21/1939 | See Source »

...Denmark the price level rose 111%. Breeders of livestock made money by selling meat to Germany and Austria in 1914, 1915 and 1916. Fodder shortages slashed production of butter and milk upon which a majority of the Danes live. Real wages in Copenhagen failed utterly to keep pace with the rising cost of living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: The Neutrals | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

...held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bread-&-Butter Putts | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

...Simplest vitamin rule: eat bright, colorful foods. Yellow foods, such as butter, corn, carrots, egg yolks, are rich in vitamin A (essential for good eyesight). Greens are rich in minerals, and in vitamins A, B and C. With a variety of fresh, gently cooked vegetables, says the U. S. Public Health Service, no healthy person need worry about vitamin deficiency, or spend money on pills, tonics, "vitaminized" foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Thought for Food | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...first such controversies in which he engaged was over the widely held notion of late 19th-Century science that a fertilized egg before starting to grow by cleavage (cell division)-and even for a time afterwards -was just so much undifferentiated raw material of life-like a lump of butter, or a pile of butter balls. Indeed one biologist did compare the early cleavage cells to "balls in a pile," and pronounced the act of cleavage at this stage to be "a mere sundering of homogeneous materials capable of any fate." The start of localized function-of specific organs with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Old-Fashioned | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

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