Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tire restrictions were being felt all over the nation last week. Milk companies abandoned daily deliveries, began to send their trucks out every other day. Department and grocery stores encouraged patrons to tote their purchases themselves. Black bourses for tires sprang up everywhere, and many an unwary motorist found himself missing a spare. "Do we have to go bankrupt?" wailed tire dealers...
Down at Mike's Club on Mt. Auburn Street, Mike is afraid that his customers may have to start drinking just plain milk instead of his famous "Mike Shakes" if he can't get any sugar. "I'm losing down to the State House to see that to do, because without sugar you can't do business," said Mike...
...when the U.S. first adopted daylight time as a war measure, farmers were the loudest objectors. The cow, they cried, is a delicately balanced creature, yields less milk for defense when her hours are disturbed. The dew, they insisted, stays on the grass until 9 a.m. (10 a.m. daylight saving time), and farmers cannot work their fields until the dew dries. Rising before dawn, they declared, they would be dog-tired long before day's end. Said New York's blue-blood dairyman Representative James Wolcott Wadsworth: "Your net gain is fatigue for the farmer...
Near Story City it nipped the knees of five bare-legged chorus girls stalled in a drift until farmers rescued them. An Iowa medico had to take to a bobsled to get to his childbirth case. While Des Moines faced a temporary milk shortage, stranded farmers around the countryside, their milk cans brimfull, poured milk into washing machines and horse tanks...
Congressman Clare Hoffman of Michi gan advocated a Spartan wartime diet for Congress: "cornmeal mush and a baked potato without butter or even milk gravy." He hoped aloud that Congressmen would be "first to lose their tubes, their tires, their automobiles, their cocktails and their dinners at the swank hotels...