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  • n  a spread made chiefly from vegetable oils and used as a substitute for butter

  • Flexing his jaw muscles nervously, "Mickey" Jelke, pudgy heir to an oleomargarine fortune, last week heard a blue-ribbon jury pronounce him guilty of enticing 19-year-old Model Pat .
  • In branching out last week into food products, Luckman had not gone afield: oleomargarine uses many of the same raw materials as soap (Lever's British parent company, Lever Bros .
  • On second thought, he agreed that his hated oleomargarine would be all right for Russia.

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