Word: creaming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through an ingenious packing of balsa wood and "ice cream bags" the weathermen have been able to overcome the main obstacle to such night observations--the very low temperatures at heights of ten miles or more, which, in the absence of the sun, have hitherto frozen instruments hung from the balloon...
...causes of these outbreaks are vareid. Protein decomposition is probably the commonest cause. Meat and meat products of all kinds, fish, shellfish, milk and milk products, such as cream, ice cream, choose and all substances made with milk, such as pastry and pie fillings, may be the cause of the dirturbance. The food need not be spoiled, with disagreeable order and taste, yet may produce intestinal irritation...
...last and most important link in the chain is the preparation of food in the University kitchen. Every modern method that has been devised for cleanly handling of food has been installed. Only the highest quality of food is purchased. All the milk and cream is pasteurized. Everything is spick and span. All the dishes are thoroughly cleaned. Every employee in the kitchen is under medical inspection. He must be cleanly in his habits, and he is taught the principles of food sanitation. If ill, he must not work, but is given leave of absence with pay. Refrigeration temperatures...
Suspicion finally centered on ice cream served Monday night. This was the only dish eaten by all those who became sick. Ice cream comes in units containing about 150 servings and, according to Dr. Bock, if the ice cream was slightly contaminated between a half and a third of those eating it would be expected to get sick. About one out of two people are immune to such forms of poisoning...
When it was discovered that several commuter students were included among those who were sick, the Union food was definitely assigned as the cause since Dudley Hall is supplied from the Union. But, since no ice cream had been saved from the batch served Monday night at the Union, and since University officials thought that it was unlikely that a single unit of ice cream would be divided between the Union and Dudley Hall, and since, also, they were uncertain that ice cream had been served at lunch at Dudley, suspicion was also cast upon the breaded veal cutlets served...