Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...milk are likewise killed, retarding souring, making milk a semi-perishable which may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow, average city supply five days old on delivery. Thus, via the pasteurizer, every quart of milk produced east of the Great Plains is potential fluid milk for city markets, arbitrary milk "sheds" or inspection areas notwithstanding. Farmers, whose milk always went to a creamery, cheese factory or condensery, now fight for the urban outlets. Dealer-controlled farmer groups, such as Dairymen's League help the farmer cut his own throat, make a united front...
...Graves turned the problem of preserving the vitality of the sperm during shipment over to his crack veterinarian, Dr. Fred W. Miller. From the bulls Dr. Miller extracted semen containing 1,000,000,000 spermatozoa, mixed the fluid with an equal amount of sugar solution, chilled the tubes to 34° F. (spermatozoa kept in warm temperatures lash their tails until they get tired, die). Next he buried the tubes in diatomaceous earth, a good insulator, packaged the whole in a buttermilk container...
...justification of his choice of Landon over Roosevelt, the aging boss of the Emporia Gazette explains this philosophy: "Economic thinking moves like molasses in January. Sometimes revolutionary action is swift and fluid and brings economic change with breath-taking rapidity...
Month ago, to still growing discontent in the cow counties, the State Commission of Agriculture upped the price of fluid milk to $2.70 per cwt., the price of milk for other uses to $2.05. The Pisecks retorted by demanding $3 for all milk regardless of the use to which it was put. Last week they were storming through the State, stumping like politicians for higher milk prices. Of Governor Lehman they demanded a special session of the Legislature to empower the Commission to establish a uniform price. The Governor apologetically declined...
Three days later New York City's big milk distributors, including Borden's and Sheffield Farms, boosted the retail price of Grade B milk from 13? per qt. to 14? per qt., voluntarily raised the price paid farmers for fluid milk...