Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revived Cherbourg's waterworks by sending damaged turbo-electric units to England to be rewound, moved 60 tons of coal from Courcelles to Creully to stoke a pasteurization plant and relieve a desperate milk shortage. G-5 teams carted diesel fuel into the Bayeux district to get flour mills going...
Sample benefits: maternity grants, ?4 ($16) plus benefits of ?1 16s ($7.20) weekly; unemployment and sickness pay, ?2 ($8) weekly for a married couple, ?1 45 ($4.80) for a single person; family allowances, 55 ($1) plus "things in kind" -school meals, milk-for each child after the first; widows' pensions, ?1 16s ($7.20) weekly for the first 13 weeks; orphans' allowances, 125 ($2.40) weekly...
After seven years' absence, The Perfect Fool was back on the air last week. This time Ed Wynn's giggle and lisp, his affectionate idiocy were selling milk (Borden) instead of gasoline (Texaco), as King Bubbles of Happy Island (Blue Network, Fri., 7 p.m., E.W.T.), where refugees from Worry Park ("Step Mournfully, Please") play make-believe. Though his new program is heavy-laden with Elsie the Cow, singers of both sexes and commercials which are part of the plot, Ed Wynn manages, as he has for 42 years of show business, to make the show entirely...
Wallace, an unbelievably fearless man, is my idol. My feeling for the man who would see to it that every Chinese baby has a quart of milk a day comes fantastically close to hero worship. I can honestly say I love that...
...eyed, bony Belgian children had learned enough English last week to chant such rhymes to Tommies and G.I.s, who tossed them chewing gum, hard candy, field rations. But what the youngsters needed was milk and oranges. Some 50% of them had rickets...