Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Board's opinion, meat, soybeans, cottonseed etc. had qualified for a return to price ceilings on every count during the price-free period (July 1 to Aug. 20). Milk prices had risen less. That was all there was to it. Gratefully, the Board moved off the griddle to await the decontrol questions that would be passed up from the Agriculture Department and OPA, and to keep its price-eye on the free-wheeling dairy folk. Congress, and supposedly the people, had got what they asked for. The country was a step toward a free market...
...coming in, the French land has once again proved itself, and food, in large quantities is getting to market. The meat situation has improved so rapidly that all rationing was lifted last week, and steaks are plentiful--for a price. And here the rub comes in. All food (except milk, which the French never had, and citrus fruits which are out of season) can be had, but for a price. The black market is king. But the strange thing about the black market is that it is not only a phenomenon of shortage but has also become an ingrained, accepted...
...editorial work week (we go to press on Monday, take Tuesday & Wednesday off) are special problems for our researchers. They can't sleep late Sundays, have trouble getting to church, worry about their boy friends taking other girls out on Saturdays and Sundays, often have to ride the milk train to the suburbs. Says one, with some asperity: "The butcher closes promptly at six and I am never there...
...Religion is not a commodity like canned milk or steel. . . but that is no reason why a religious program should not use . . . modern radio techniques to help the audience start thinking about spiritual things. . . .I have actual tangible proof that music not only soothes the sorrowing breast, but leads the non-Catholic to be more ready and willing to accept the Catholic message...
...determined how the disease spreads; it is as likely to strike on Park Avenue as in Hell's Kitchen, hits harder in suburbs than in cities. There is no proof that polio is spread by flies, drinking water, milk, swimming in infected waters...