Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...device consists of a piece of wood, strung with violin strings, but lacking the sound-box. The vibrations of the strings are electrically amplified through a loudspeaker system, producing a very full tone. Bowles' composition featured several other unusual instruments--Chinese gong, temple blocks, chimes, auto horn, and a milk bottle tapped with a key, but unlike many experiments in exotic instrumentation, contained a lot of sincere writing...
...Fulbright himself, about his sudden emergence as postwar planner (TIME, June 28). Said Farm Bureau Head H. S. Mobley: "Congressman Fulbright's talkin' about the peace over there. That's all very well, but what about over here, where we can't even get our milk picked up?" Farmers wanted to know about the feed shortage, higher prices for poultry; merchants asked why canned goods had higher ceiling prices in other states than in Arkansas...
Researcher Brownlee had been disturbed: the U.S. would be short of some 20 billion pounds of milk this year. He felt that it was practically sinful to use good whole milk to make butter, the least nutritious of all milk products. He calculated that enough margarine to replace butter completely could be produced from half the crop land and with an eighth the labor. He favored removing Federal and State taxes and other restrictions by which dairy-state Congressmen have long hamstrung the sale of margarine...
Stolid Dr. Charles E. Friley, president of Iowa State College, at first tried to protect his corn-belt Don Quixote from the dairymen's fury, mumbled about academic freedom. But then he himself was summoned to a meeting of 100 angry Iowa milk producers. Orated Francis Johnson, president of the Iowa Farm Bureau Federation : "The farmers are alarmed over this tendency to make Iowa State College a tax-supported Harvard. They're not ashamed of the 'cow college' label...
...patient with chronic symptoms that are hard to diagnose should be suspected of having chronic undulant fever. That is, if he has ever drunk unpasteurized milk, as who has not? This is the conclusion which two Indiana small-town doctors, Neal Davis of Lowell (pop. 1,450) and Dan L. Urschel of Mentone (pop. 730), reached independently after seeing many such cases. Nobody paid much attention to this mild form of undulant fever until Drs. Urschel and Davis began calling attention to it in the Indiana State Medical Association Journal...