Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week's end, after a week's hard work as President, after deciding as a rationed citizen to give up his breakfast coffee for milk*, Franklin Roosevelt came down with a cold, his second in a month...
...Fluid milk is unfit for human consumption, says 75-year-old Dr. Horace Wendell Soper of St. Louis. As a onetime recorder of the GastroEnterological Association and chairman of A.M.A.'s section in that field, he cannot be dismissed as a crank. In 1941, after 47 years of practice, he retired, but soon returned to work because "I liked work better." He started damning fluid milk about 25 years ago, after 15 years of watching its effect in the human...
...wrote in his latest excoriation, "appears to be the only mammal which habitually consumes milk after the period of lactation has ceased." To prove milk unnecessary, Dr. Soper cited Nutritionist Elmer Verner McCollum, discoverer of several vitamins and advocate of a quart of milk a day. McCollum described inhabitants of the wet regions in southern Asia who live on a diet of rice, soybeans, sweet potatoes and many other vegetables. They are better developed physically, have more capacity for work and endurance, escape the skeletal defects (rickets) of childhood and have the finest teeth of any race in the world...
...doctors would lend an ear to anti-vaccal Dr. Soper, but milk bacteriologists agree with him about the bacteria. Among those present...
...childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...