Word: buttermilker
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...recalls: "He was the smartest agriculture student I've ever had." Finally married in 1926, Flora and Ezra set off in a model T pickup truck for Iowa State College, where he had won a scholarship. They pieced out their diet with free samples of hickory squash and buttermilk from the agricultural school; within a year Benson had his master's degree, and went back to run the family farm (now owned by a brother...
...please the butter men. But the Agriculture Department had a way to make them happy, too: it promised to support prices by buying up surplus butter. An effort was even made to make foreign dairymen happy. They were allowed to ship as much dried milk, cream and buttermilk to the U.S. as they wanted to send. That seemed to take care of everyone...
Last week Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan reluctantly decided the time had come to start making others besides taxpayers unhappy. He slapped import quotas on dried milk, buttermilk and cream, limiting imports in the first quarter to the level of a year ago-a little more than half the recent rate. Brannan had no choice: under a clause in the Defense Production Act, sponsored by Minnesota's Republican Representative August Andresen, dairy imports must be limited to quantities that will not "result in any unnecessary burden or expenditures under any Government price-support program...
OFFSTAGE, Billy Graham chews his nails, snaps his fingers and paces the floor. He does not smoke or drink anything stronger than buttermilk. For recreation, he plays golf (middle 90s), drives his car at high speeds, fishes, reads Zane Grey westerns, and talks a blue streak. Inevitably, Billy's closest companions are members of his ten-man team, six of whom, including the pressagent, are also ministers. (His wife seldom travels with him.) A close-knit and devoted group, they handle the organizational details, and do their best to buffer Billy from the constant press of the crowd. They...
...approached his 83rd birthday this year, Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, who loves carrots and publicity, was overcome by a recurring conviction: he was still a boy because he had quaffed quantities of buttermilk and vegetable juice all his life. To prove his youth, Macfadden decided to parachute out of an airplane over Niagara Falls. When horrified U.S. and Canadian officials forbade the stunt, Macfadden let it be known that he would jump out over New York's George Washington Bridge. The cops threatened to arrest...