Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elfish, slow-smoldering Stephen Vincent Benét wrote the program's "letters to Hitler" for six representative Americans: a farmer (Raymond Massey-"We'll choke you with wheat and corn, Adolf, we'll drown you in York State milk"), a mother (Helen Hayes-"I do not say it is just or right to hate. I say we hate you for having caused this hate"), a businessman (Melvyn Douglas-"You can't do business with a man who doesn't know the meaning of a contract"), a laborer (James Cagney-"We're sending...
...told the world's remaining neutrals-particularly those like India who blocked the United Nations' plan-that freedom was not to be given but earned. And he had injected a little hard Tennessee muscle into the milk-and-honey promises of men like Henry Wallace. The postwar world was not all a matter of social-worker theory; it would also involve harsh duties, hard work, and economic sense...
Algin is a colloidal material of the sugar family, itself edible, but principally used as an emulsifying agent in salad dressings, chocolate-milk drinks, ice cream, where it serves to stabilize the intimate mixture of oil or solids in water and to give a smooth texture. Buttermilk, cakes, icings, candy and even tooth paste are smoothed by a fraction of 1% of algin. It is extracted from the kelp after drying, pulverizing and alkali treatment. The kelp itself is harvested by giant scissors which cut the growth within three feet of the surface, do not seriously injure the magnificent treelike...
...These ships could land 500,000 fully equipped men in England in a single day," he cried. "The next day they could fly over again with 70,000 tons of fresh milk, beefsteaks, sugar and bombs. No submarines could shoot them down...
...What do they eat? Well, the men eat about everything they can get their hands on. And the girls, well, they stick to reducing stuff like salads, berries, fruit, tea, and some milk. We hardly ever see them at breakfast...