Word: butters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...plant. Along with recession slowdowns at other big companies-Bendix Products Division, U.S. Rubber, Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice and butter. At one point the city's Council of Community Services reported 3,788 hardship cases per month, and people could be heard wishing that Studebaker would go under once and for all. Says a Chamber of Commerce official: "A minority wanted Studebaker to die, so we could take a fresh...
...Bread & Butter. Speaking for the large majority of those who willingly shelled out, Musicman Meredith Willson (full-page picture, no name) explained: "I shudder to think of the hole in show-business life if there were no Variety. I know how much money I'm making in Denver, what hotel my people are staying in, when they are coming in where, how the competition is in New Haven, the ratings of my songs. My bread and butter is all right there, and this is my way of saying 'Thanks...
...Brown and Page saw it, the trick was to reverse the animal-vegetable fat ratio while disturbing the eating patterns as little as possible. They did this by: 1) eliminating most of the saturated fat from the diet by cutting out fatty meats, butter, whole milk, cream, most cheeses, egg yolks, oleomargarine, hydrogenated shortenings, coconut and cocoa products; 2) adding cottonseed oil (though soybean, corn or peanut oil would have done as well) to make up the fat deficit...
...Soviet statistic silence as to farm production that has lasted throughout his five-year reign, bragged that in 1958 the Soviet Union had harvested a 137 million-ton grain crop. He also asserted that this year Soviet milk production would top that of the U.S. for 1957, that Soviet butter production now surpassed the U.S.'s, that Soviet wool output was now 2.3 times that of the U.S. and second only to Australia's in the world. Only in meat production did he admit that the Soviet Union, producing less than half the U.S. output, was failing...
...Tread & Butter. On the Belgian-Netherlands frontier, a smuggler hauling 1,700 lbs. of butter drove through customs without stopping, put the skids to customs men's attempts to catch up by sowing the road behind him with globs of butter, dumped 200 lbs. before he finally ran out of gas and surrendered...