Word: doa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hubert Humphrey promptly called for action "at the White House level" to reinstate Ladejinsky; other Democrats talked of a congressional investigation. The Agriculture Department quickly denied that "antiSemitism played any part in the Ladejinsky case." Refugee Vitt said that some of his best friends were Jews, and that the DOA had violated its promise by publishing the letter Vitt meant to be used "circumspectly." It looked as if some people in Agriculture would be well cast in the role of Mortimer Gooch, the man who was so dumb it must have been premeditated...
...remarkable discovery in Washington: the Eisenhower Department of Agriculture, which had 15,000 more copies of the booklet printed last July, was still selling it. In fact, Miss Hazel K. Stiebeling, the holdover chief of the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, was still stoutly defending the old DOA view that the Government should perform any useful service that a group of citizens want. Said she: "These booklets are published to fill a need. When they get into the hands of people who do not need them, they lend themselves to the humor of incongruity...
...after the press wires clacked out the news that the booklet was still available, a DOA spokesman said that before any more were printed, the text would be "reviewed...
...trick of guarding the flavor is to heat it just enough. Too little heating allows it to oxidize and acquire a "cappy" (i.e., bottle cap) flavor. Too much heating makes it taste cooked. The best bet, says DOA, is to heat grade-A milk to 155° for 30 minutes (or to 170° for one minute). Then it is homogenized, concentrated to one-third its volume, and frozen in sealed containers. The product will keep for two weeks in a home icebox, or for eight weeks in a freezer at -10°. When thawed and diluted with good water...