Word: creams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like lumbermen, cattlemen and dairymen joined in the grumble and the National Grange in session at Sacramento voted a unanimous protest regardless of the fact that the reduced duty will apply only to relatively small quotas of cattle and cream imports. In Denver, Fernand E. Mollin, secretary of the American Livestock Association, declared that it did not matter how limited the tariff reduction was. Groaned he: "The damage is done! The precedent is established!" Senator McNary of Oregon Announced that he was leaving for Washington to lodge a protest with the President...
...reduction limited however to 155,799 heavy beef cattle, 51,933 calves less than 175 lb. each, and 20,000 dairy cattle per year; a 20% to 40% cut for 750,000 bu. a year of seed potatoes; 43% off for 1,500,000 gal. a year of cream; half off on halibut; $2.50 instead of $5 per gallon on whiskey aged four years or more in the wood; half off on lumber with an annual limitation to 250,000,000 board feet on Douglas fir and western hemlock. In addition, the U. S. agreed to keep on the free...
...flapping, crimson-hued goose poured Mr. Bingham's cream pie prepared for him on Saturday afternoon's gridiron by Dick Harlow, Shaun Kelly, and some 47,000 ticket-buyers. Mr. Bingham espied the goose shortly after it slighted on the sidelines and, fearing disruption of the Yale Band by this rosy apparition, promptly ordered the cheerleaders to the chase. Accordingly the goose was escorted from the field, locked in a rumble beat, and taken for a ride far into the countryside...
...President, a guest of Governor Herring at the game, suggested that the pig should be named "New Deal." When Governor Herring rejected the suggestion, the father of the President's two favorite grandchildren retorted, "Then I think you ought to grease it a little with cold cream to make it a smoother proposition...
...Three girls left to go home after a day and a half in camp. The director said nothing-just let them go. That noon a delicious Sunday dinner was served, consisting of chicken and dumplings, potatoes, salad, hot rolls, green beans and ice cream and cake for dessert. About half an hour after dinner the three slipped back into the camp and came up to the director. 'Please, we want to come back. We think it's pretty swell here...