Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prime Minister," Churchill rumbled, "where are the rifles which, on V-E day, armed 4,600,000 troops and Home Guards of this country alone? Are they in oil? ... There is no difficulty in keeping rifles. They do not go sour, like milk . . . What has happened to those latest models of tanks...
Chick, who had progressed from stealing milk bottles to shoplifting, told why it was difficult to stop: "When you're used to having money in your pocket, you'll always want it. When your pocket's empty, it's got to be full. It's sort of like an automobile-can't run without gasoline." Frank explained what happened to $500 he'd stolen: "I gave $10 to my mother and told her I won it in a dice game. And I gave $10 to my brother . . . And the rest, I-I went...
Foods. Although this year's harvest was the greatest in U.S. history, the Department of Agriculture set even higher production goals for many foods next year. Biggest boosts: milk up about 3%, chickens and turkeys 10%, sheep 7%, sweet potatoes...
...point is: that we were junking idealism. While we do plan to show the practical workings of our economy, we will continue to counteract the milk-socialist propaganda of the local pseudo-intellectuals by showing that the American way, as we see it, will give "the greatest good for the greatest number...
King Competition. In New York City, where home-delivered milk had soared to 25½ ? a quart, consumption had dropped and worried dairy farmers asked the Department of Agriculture to cut farm milk prices. The farm equipment industry, which will do a record $2 billion business this year, was finally catching up with its huge backlog of orders. Small tractors, once scarcer than autos, could now be bought off dealers' floors...