Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Garlic and Tuberculosis. Far more serious than tick fever was bovine tuber culosis. For years it had plagued farmers, killing their cattle. Worse yet, tuberculosis germs were transmitted to humans through cows' milk. The year he became bureau chief (1917) John Mohler swung out against bovine tuberculosis. There was only one cure for it : killing all cattle who had it. John Mohler traipsed across the land, pleading with farmers to allow tuberculin tests ; ruthlessly ordering the cattle shot when the tests were positive. In those days U.S. farmers resented Federal interference heartily; no dang Gov'ment...
...Iowa, farmers refused the tests. They argued: If a cow eats garlic, it shows up within half an hour in the cow's milk; surely the tuberculin injection would contaminate the milk. John Mohler pleaded the logic of science, finally won out. He ran 232,000,000 tests, slaughtered 3,800,000 tuberculous cows...
...mainland things are different. Spending money in large gobs is not only possible but obligatoiy. A chocolate malted milk in one of Anchorage's excellent drugstores costs 40?. Ice cream is $1 a quart. A haircut is $1.50. A shoeshine is a quarter. So is a loaf of bread or a tomato...
They will have more pork, eggs, chickens, fluid milk, fats, oranges, potatoes and beans. They will have less beef, lamb, fish, fruits and vegetables, sugar, rice, tea, cocoa, butter, cheese...
...know the technical or other difficulties in either of the following, so we can still ask natively, "Any chance of getting refrigerated drinking fountains in the dorms?" and "can we please have all the milk we want to drink at Cowie...