Word: butters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Dairy products: more than 1,000 seizures, having to do chiefly with butter lacking in butterfat, watered milk, milk contaminated with bacteria...
...exchange of overt advertising and to boost one another editorially. The Hearst papers do this continually. The result of such attempts may almost invariably be diagnosed by a glance at the "puff" which is printed as news or comment. It is usually fatuous, vapid. Its very effort to spread butter is nauseous and flat. The best publishing ethics has not yet forbidden this type of matter. Occasionally it turns up in the most respected journals. The New York Times is an example. Current History, a monthly journal of events, belongs to the Times group. Recently an article, almost a column...
Apparently the matter was settled. Not so. The Commission undertook the investigation of the tariff on butter. Immediately three disgusted members announced that they could not take part in the proceedings because they owned farms on which cows were kept. The other three members grew very angry...
...Adopted a resolution asking the Tariff Commission to investigate the cost of making butter, domestically and abroad, with a view to increasing the tariff...
...literature have doubtless never been inspired by this motive; yet with economic life pictured by Smith and Ricardo it has been deemed indispensable. While the Pulitzer prizes are for the most part a recognition of the merit of work produced under the stress of earning bread and butter, the attention aroused by their announcement suggests that some-other motive besides personal gain is effective as a stimulus to creative energy...