Word: production
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...product of hours and hours of patient toil...
...declared: "The people have found a great hope, and that hope is in the Progressive movement. We have enlisted in the campaign to restore this Government to the service of the public, to secure to the laborer and producer in all lines a greater share of the product of his toll, while protecting the consumer against the trust-fixed prices on all he buys, and to drive out of the Government influences now so dominant there...
...Mege-Mourees, a French scientist, invented margarine as a substitute for butter, by churning beef fat with milk. The product was called oleomargarine. In 1906, vegetable oils were first substituted for the oleo oils, to lower the price and improve the product. Up till this time, margarine was considered only a nasty substitute for butter; good grocers would not sell it, and some sellers were arrested for handling it. Its only lure lay in its cheapness...
...introduction of vegetable oils, however, turned the tide abroad. Yet the product failed of wide acceptance until the War, when butter was rationed in England. Many who had to eat margarine or nothing, ended by liking it as well as butter...
...practical chemical skill, combining many oils after refining, decolorization and deodorization. Last year, Britain imported $150,000,000 worth of vegetable oils, most of which went to her margarine makers. Imports included cottonseed oil from the U. S., as well as oils from palms, cocoanuts, soya beans, peanuts. The product is colored with the red annatto bean from Asia, and sells for half the price of butter...