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There were no ill effects from this first contest of the year although the teams went at it hot and heavy for the full twenty minutes. Attention was directed principally toward lineplaying; straight, old fashioned rushes which gave the new tackles, Joss and Butter-worth, and the guard. Eckart and Coone, plenty to think about...
...caused considerable nervousness among the Moscow Governmental hierarchy. Krassin, Kamenev and Zinoviev maintained that grain must be exported. Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissaries, wavered. War Lord Trotzky thought it the height of folly to flout the people's wishes and recommended export of butter, timber, eggs, flax, oil to the West and of sugar to the East instead of export of grain. No decision was reached...
...Mege-Mourees, a French scientist, invented margarine as a substitute for butter, by churning beef fat with milk. The product was called oleomargarine. In 1906, vegetable oils were first substituted for the oleo oils, to lower the price and improve the product. Up till this time, margarine was considered only a nasty substitute for butter; good grocers would not sell it, and some sellers were arrested for handling it. Its only lure lay in its cheapness...
...introduction of vegetable oils, however, turned the tide abroad. Yet the product failed of wide acceptance until the War, when butter was rationed in England. Many who had to eat margarine or nothing, ended by liking it as well as butter...
...worth of vegetable oils, most of which went to her margarine makers. Imports included cottonseed oil from the U. S., as well as oils from palms, cocoanuts, soya beans, peanuts. The product is colored with the red annatto bean from Asia, and sells for half the price of butter...