Word: lentz
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such a homely thing as the family wash may cause cracked skulls, bombings. Last week saw the continuation of a new kind of peacetime war. The Nation's milk, product of patient kine, beverage of babies, churned up in violence.* Near Plainfield, Ill. The Guernsey herd of Isaac Lentz, an independent dairyman who had withdrawn from a local milk distributing association and cut his price, lay in their stalls placidly swishing their tails and chewing their nocturnal cuds. Suddenly Farmer Lentz heard a mighty roar. Running outside he discovered that his barn had been bombed, was afire. Before...
...some subsidized by the Federal Farm Board. Since the farmer is usually unable to market his own milk, these sales agencies become extremely potent, sometimes to the farmers' misfortune. Chief sources of trouble: independent dairymen refusing to abide by the cooperative's price dictates as did Farmer Lentz; cooperatives trying to enter the retail distribution field and thereby running afoul of large retail distributors...