Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...come before June 30, when President Roosevelt's wartime price-control powers expire. These powers permit the President to pay subsidies for "strategic or critical materials." Opposition Congressmen say they meant magnesium, chrome and mica; the President has assumed, that they could also have meant butter, meat and milk. Congress may not take away the powers he has assumed −a two-thirds vote will be needed. But by simple majority vote, they may well reduce those powers. Already the Farm Bloc's Jesse P. Wolcott, Republican, of Port Huron, Mich., was loading up a blunderbuss to blow...
...amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would be many added to the multitude of dead...
...Alessi went on to testify that his false teeth cost $105, that his rent is $38 (which is reduced to $30 because his wife tends the apartment furnace), that his pay is garnisheed $3.78 a week by the National City Bank, that he has to buy three quarts of milk a day for his children. This last reminded John Alessi...
...great evacuation of Japanese from California after Pearl Harbor. He was there last week, with several hundred other battle-weary U.S. airmen, resting in the luxury of the former Edgewater Beach Club, now an Air Forces redistribution center. Like his comrades, he slept late, guzzled orange juice and fresh milk, tried to unwind and get toned...
Research to find a substitute for human plasma does not stop with beef blood. Some substitutes that work: coconut milk, casein, isinglass (fish gelatin), pectin. But doctors still reserve their real enthusiasm for safe human plasma or human serum albumin...