Word: joell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...give mothers-to-be the impression that to produce two quarts of prime milk is possible only to a mother of such brave porportions as Mrs. Joell. That is my present production figure, and between babies my measure is a modest 32-my profile as flat as a table...
Mabel Caines Joell is a mighty mammal. Every day the breasts of this vast, friendly colored woman produce a quart of milk for her own thriving infant and more than another quart for Manhattan's Mothers' Milk Bureau...
...Joell "expresses" her bureau milk by hand (machine milking, says the bureau, is less tiring but harder on breast tissues) ; in the middle of her donation she often "feels quite depleted" and stops for lunch. The bureau pays her 15? an oz. for her milk, or about $44 a week-more than the attending nurses earn. Mrs. Joell's production is the envy of the bureau's other milk donors (most of whom earn about $70 a month), and she may remain fresh for 15 to 18 months...
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