Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dewey, talking to newsmen, stuck to his declaration of last November that he would not be a candidate. And he risked alienating corn-country support when he urged Midwestern farmers to reduce their pig population so that they could send feed to the East, thus avert an Eastern milk famine. At this point, many a newsman decided that Tom Dewey really was not seeking the nomination. Others thought he merely reflected the belief of most patriotic citizens that a quick solution of wartime problems is more important than political ambition...
...Before the Dairymen's League Cooperative Association. Inc., in Manhattan, uprose greying Fred H. Sexauer, longtime president of the league (which represents 29,000 New York dairymen). Said he: "Some day city people will learn that as far as milk is concerned, the OPA has been their No. 1 enemy. . . . The present system of price fixing on food products has all the elements of a national scandal and the making of a ghastly tragedy. . . . Subsidies are the tangled net in which a free people become so enmeshed that they become helpless pawns of a dominating centralized Government." Administration talk...
Kill the Pigs. The talk ran cross-country; at the Governors' Conference in Columbus, up rose New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey to warn his Midwestern colleagues that unless more grain flowed from the Midwest to the East, milk rationing would be a fact by October...
...hating Howard W. Smith, Virginia Democrat, author of a dozen anti-labor bills, warned: "This inflation threat is so dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...
...Baby foods are usually obtainable, but druggists have to watch for adult customers who buy baby foods to supplement their own skimpy milk ration...