Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Squeeze All Around. Some big milk distributors-notably in New York and Duluth-Superior-were squeezed too when OPA froze fluid milk and cream prices last May at abnormally low March levels. Under the price law, OPA could not then freeze butter prices, which jumped upward and tried to drag milk prices along. But for the distributors, the Government provided subsidies of $1 million a month -temporary hush money until OPA and the Agriculture Department could decide on the least evil of three: 1) raise milk a cent a quart; 2) lower the average price to farmers; 3) continue paying...
Nobody likes the subsidies, but more might come. Farmers feel the money is going to the wrong group, the distributors. The distributors want free prices. But OPA sweats at the thought of raising fluid milk prices and upsetting the cost-of-living index. The Department of Agriculture looks appalled when talk veers to reducing the wholesale prices of fluid milk. Finding a way out is Economizer Byrnes's task...
...milk distributors a direct subsidy so that retail prices can be kept down. In New York City alone the subsidy already amounts to about $15,000 a day-and it will have to be doubled this month if it is to keep pace with the latest jump in fluid-milk prices. This means that complicated subsidies-and increasing ones at that-have now spread even into the distribution field...
...windproof cigaret lighter gets a swell rating from 55% of the Army and 63% of the Navy (but fluid is not mailable). Other favorites: cigarets, leather wallets with insignia on them, pen & pencil sets, stationery, polarized sun glasses. The boys even want shoe brushes and razor-blade sharpeners. Special Army favorites: good regulation shirts and socks and extra government issue caps (of the right branch). But as Army and Navy provide full outfits for all except officers it is better not to send clothes unless specifically requested...
...lucky in that his defense area had magnificent communications. It was criss-crossed with highways and railroads (see map, p. 29), dotted with airdromes, some snatched from the French, some built by the Germans in their months of hesitancy after Dunkirk. With these advantages Rundstedt has organized a fluid defense, well but tressed on its front by strong points, backed by forces that could be whipped to any threatened point...