Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the British harried the Axis flanks, gave Rommel's supply lines no surcease from bombing. Allied bombers raided Mediterranean shipping. Tobruk became known as the "milk run" to R.A.F. pilots who made regular, daily visits. Meanwhile U.S. service troops-mechanics, technical experts, supply specialists, laborers, trainers-slaved away steadily in Africa to build posts for U.S. combat troops on the way. As a relief to stretches of toil, they toughened themselves on the sand...
...export firm selling diving suits to Venezuela pearl divers. Since then he has led an up-&-down life that would fill several dime thrillers, has got rich and gone broke in such disparate ventures as peddling old Haitian ships to the U.S. Government in World War I; driving a milk truck in Wilmington; buying and selling land in Florida's real estate boom...
...convention opened in the St. George's white-walled, flag-draped ballroom. Up stepped Governor Lehman to make the keynote speech. There was only milk-mild applause at his mention of President Roosevelt. But when Jim Farley stepped to the microphone he got an ovation. So did his good friend, Boss Frank V. Kelly of Brooklyn, who could win the fight for Farley by holding his 193 delegates fast...
Professor Sherman changed his mind in Modern Bread from the Viewpoint of Nutrition (MacMillan; $1.75), a 100-page book written together with Constance S. Pearson. But he claims that it is not he, but bread, that has recently changed. Modern bread, he says, made with plenty of milk and without removing the wheat germ from the flour, is very different from white bread. It is so different that white bread should have a different name, probably should not be called bread...
Moreover, modern bread is baked with plenty of milk or milk powder. This supplies calcium (for the bones and teeth) and the vitamin called riboflavin, which is also a powerful disease preventive. Only when made with the whole meal and milk can bread be called adequate...