Word: butters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headquarters and Washington dismissed Khrushchev's demand as a "diversion" that betrayed Russia's concern over the West's economic vitality as compared with its own weakness. One of Russia's great economic defeats was dramatized last week when Moscow boosted meat prices 30% and butter prices 25%-the sharpest cost-of-living increase in Russia since World War II. Said Nikita:."I wouldn't say that this was pleasant for the people." But he argued that the move was necessary. Reason: collective farmers "have not been materially interested in increasing their output" because prices...
Given the new prices, a minimum-wage earner in Russia must work five hours for a pound of butter, as against 42 minutes in the U.S. The Russian must work four hours for a pound of meat, as against 46 minutes in the U.S. The political consequences of these figures, at home and abroad, might be vast. They suggest that Russia cannot afford to produce both guns and butter. They also show that the revolutionary regime, whose basic appeal was to the "masses" and their hunger for a better life, today still cannot fully satisfy that hunger...
...economy." Increasingly, this boast is challenged by those who say that the growing switch to such substitute materials as aluminum and concrete makes steel a lot less basic than it once was. But steel is still the biggest single force in U.S. industry, still directly provides the bread and butter of one U.S. industrial worker...
Last week the butter was being spread a little thinner. Since March, steel production has slipped from 82% of capacity to 55%, and dozens of steel furnaces have been banked from Pittsburgh to Buffalo. This week U.S. steelmakers will pour barely 1,600,000 tons-just about what Russia will produce...
...father still refuses to believe that Billie Sol really did anything wrong: "The Constitution says a man ain't guilty until they prove it, and they ain't proved anything on Billie yet." The family was so poor that Billie Sol's mother sold home-churned butter from door to door to help meet the mortgage and insurance payments. Billie Sol made up his mind early in life that he was going to be rich. While other West Texas farm boys were thinking about shooting crows or catching fish after the chores were done, Billie...