Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clock of bleak Winton Green Prison in Birmingham chimed 9. A milk delivery cart rattled down the street outside the prison walls, where 500 persons stood shivering in a cold Midlands...
Rich President Aguirre's Popular Front Government reduced the price of bread from 2. 20 pesos (11?) to 1.70 (9?) and the price of some meats by 40%, made available to workers who had never tasted milk 12,000 litres a day at 80 centavos a litre, returned from Government-owned pawnshops some 9,000,000 pesos worth of hocked tools and clothing. "Don Tinto," says the poor man of Chile, "es un muy buen hombre...
...Scion of Sass." Shy, serious, six-foot David Rockefeller, youngest of John D. Jr.'s five sons, rode in Manhattan's subway to the Municipal Lodging House, looked over its rooms, ate a six-and-a-half-cent meal (corn soup, codfish, celery and green peppers, applesauce, milk) with homeless men, rode back in the subway to make notes for his University of Chicago Ph.D. thesis* on a still undetermined subject. That night, dancing with Socialite Margaret McGrath, daughter of Wall Street Lawyer Francis Sims McGrath, in Rockefeller Center's swank Rainbow Room, Son David...
Swiss Family Robinson (RKO) submits for the timely consideration of cinemaddicts the example of the famed Swiss family which fled from the Napoleonic wars to the peace of a South Sea islet. It also makes clear that flight to the tropical paradise will not be all coconut milk and honey if mother and the children are more given to urban ways than to the Tolstoyan delights of wood turning, leather tanning and animal husbandry...
...past is rising before the Yardlings like a cloud--a past crammed with visions of irresponsible Presidents who have made their roommates Jubilee chairmen and then kidded them playfully for running $1000 in the red. The Freshmen shiver when they hear of a former ice-cream cater, or a milk-drinker, who rose to triumph on his illgotten publicity. It's all very unfortunate, when an election should be such a fine thing, a stimulant to class interest, even a lesson in citizenship. Yes, the Freshmen are right, the old system must...