Word: frugalities
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...haven't eaten butter since I was a WAC in Africa . . . With butter selling at 70? a Ib. and vegetable fats selling for 28?, my family eats the frugal choice. However, is that a good reason to give it away at 42?? If I could buy butter at 64? a Ib. (the price we taxpayers paid), I'd buy ten pounds at a time without its affecting my margarine purchases . . . If my example is any criterion, the Department of Agriculture's bitter butter problem could be solved in a few short weeks . . . Golly, I'd like...
Spotless & Frugal. N.Z.Z.'s stocky, pink-cheeked Editor Willy Bretscher, 57, who has worked on the paper for 37 years and been its boss for more than 20, is proudest of his daily's fight against Naziism. When a small band of Swiss Nazis began to sing Hitler's praises...
...beat was the Northwest, a region he loves with a sincere passion. He covered 2,200,000 sq. mi. from the Aleutians to upper California and west to Montana and Wyoming. A frugal craftsman, he was disinclined to write one story on one subject for one magazine; instead he broke up each piece of research into three or four fragments, built them into separate stories, and squeezed the maximum possible return out of his reporting...
...night coach rides, smoky nightclubs and hamburger joints at dawn. Nowadays, the quartet travels in better style than in the days when it chugged cross-country in Dave's old car, with the string bass tied to the ceiling. But Brubeck still retains most of his frugal habits: he travels with one suit (two pairs of pants) that rarely gets a pressing, and usually washes his own nylon shirts in the bathroom. His wife used to go on tour with him, but he was nervous whenever he knew she was listening to him. ("When are you going home...
...years ago," said Ike, "Americans wanted an end to the war in Korea-a war allowed to become futile, seemingly without end . . . Americans wanted a Government thrifty and frugal with the public's money. They wanted a stop to the endless rise in taxes, taking more and more of the family income to support an overgrown Washington bureaucracy. They wanted something done about inflation-to end the growing discouragement, as, day by day, pensions and savings and the weekly paycheck bought less and less at the corner store. Americans were determined to eliminate penetration by the Communist conspiracy...