Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milk-fed citizens will view with alarm your rashness in reporting the actual manner in which a soldier speaks when he is working. Don't let them scare you off. . . . Soldiers [don't] act and talk the way they do in the movies. . . . Continue to give us Belden, verbatim...
Grazing grass, as usual, was the heat's first victim. Down in the browned pasture, 40-odd cattle stood at the fence eying a distant field of ragweed, which looks green but makes no milk. This summer John Stiles, like many another drought-pinched U.S. farmer, is using up his next winter's cattle feed...
...drought will probably cost John Stiles and his Maryland neighbors: 10 to 25% in milk, 37% in corn, 50% in late vegetables. In Virginia the potato crop was hit; in Delaware the dry spell took toll of tomatoes, limas, string beans, peaches. Total estimated crop damage in states bordering Washington, D.C.: $50 million...
...Quart of Milk. "What," asks Dr. Lin, "are you going to Europeanize the world with? The European standards of living, of course. Curious that one does not say the standards of morals. . . . When one speaks of raising the standards of living, one means clearly and simply that laundry will be more pleasant, and dishwashing and vacuum-cleaning will be easier on the housewife, plus perhaps a quart of milk a day for the Hottentot. One means less hand labor. One means having a car and seeing a movie once a week...
...boost of the top compulsory-schooling age from 14 to 16, with compulsory part-time education up to 18. ^ More free milk, shoes, medicine for pupils and increased "amenities" in secondary schools...