Word: holstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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World War II began last week at 5:20 a. m. (Polish time) Friday, September 1, when a German bombing plane dropped a projectile on Puck, fishing village and air base in the armpit of the Hel Peninsula. At 5:45 a. m. the German training ship Schleswig-Holstein lying off Danzig fired what was believed to be the first shell: a direct hit on the Polish underground ammunition dump at Westerplatte. It was a grey day, with gentle rain...
...neutrals received German assurances that their neutrality would be respected. Denmark, mindful of possible German claims on northern Schleswig-Holstein, was not too reassured by a German reference to "problems that may arise between us." In Copenhagen gas masks were issued and blood donors ordered to register at hospitals...
...sight of Governor Dickinson milking the Holstein might better be pictured to inspire our people to milk cows instead of treasuries. At the rate civilization is moving in reverse possibly it is high time we all got on our knees...
Luren Dudley Dickinson, the Governor of Michigan, balanced himself on a milk stool on the lawn of his capitol at Lansing one afternoon last week, milking Miss Ormsby, a Holstein cow. The occasion: National Milk Week. Suddenly His Excellency shifted his seat, toppled off his perch. Unless Luren Dickinson, aged 80, abandoned one of his cardinal tenets as he sprawled on the grass, he prayed...
...Lorna 996685, a Jersey owned by L. A. Hulbert of Independence, Ore., had produced 17,121 lbs. of milk in the official 305-day test period, enough butterfat to outweigh herself by 20 lbs. Previous holder of the all-breed record was Aaltje Salo Hengerveld Segis 823991, a Vermont Holstein who produced 995.9 lbs. in the same time. Proud Jersey cattle-clubmen pointed out that the Holstein was milked four times a day; Lorna, three...