Word: milk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...solution for the shrinking dollar of student veterans was offered by a man who identified himself as Mr. Hayes, president of the Boston branch of the Hayes-Bickford Lunch System. In following up a complaint (verified) about the reduction in size of a ten-cent bottle of milk, an editor was explaining how student veterans were particularly affected...
Variety Store...milk shakes...
...noon Frank Anderson called a halt. His shirt and overalls were mushy with sweat, dust and chaff. At the house plump, jolly Zula Anderson had everything on the table the minute the men finished at the back-porch sink-fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy, corn, tomatoes, beets, bread & butter, milk, iced...
...added an estimated 30% to the U.S. maize yield. By suppressing undesirable recessive characteristics in the crossed plants, hybridization produces hardier, more vigorous offspring. Crossbreeding has been extended to other plants, poultry, hogs, steers. Last week spectacular results were reported from another Wallace-sponsored experiment. Subject: cows. Object: more milk...
...Department of Agriculture's Beltsville, Md. Research Center, at Wallace's suggestion, began crossbreeding Holsteins, Jerseys, Red Danes and Guernseys. Using only high-grade stock, continuously enriched by new genes from well-pedigreed sires, they produced 32 two-breed hybrid cows which averaged 12,842 pounds of milk and 592 pounds of butterfat a year, well above their mothers' production, and five three-breed crosses which did even better: 14,837 pounds of milk and 645 pounds of butterfat. (U.S. average for good non-hybrids: 8,500 pounds of milk; 350 pounds...