Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Germany the regime last week admitted that meat and milk production had fallen far short of the planned output. In Poland, which has largely returned to private agriculture, meat production is adequate, but floods have damaged much of the nation's essential potato crop. Bad weather has also struck Bulgaria, but this cannot excuse the fact that total farm production is only slightly higher than prewar. Wheat, once an export commodity, is now imported at a rate of up to 400,000 tons a year...
...muscles relaxed and his arched back straightened, Douma was clearly on the mend. Just five days after entering the hospital, and little more than three days after his first tank treatment, Douma spoke for the first time. His lockjaw had eased enough for him to swallow water and milk, and he seemed well on the way to recovery...
...years ago, when he struck the MiVida uranium deposit on the Colorado Plateau, slim, haggard Geologist Charles A. Steen was so broke that he couldn't afford to buy milk for his children. Last week Steen agreed to sell MiVida and itc mill to New York's Atlas Corp. for $12.8 million. Steen sold for capital gains "because it was the only way I could keep anything." Steen now operates two big Nevada cattle ranches, has branched out into other kinds of mining (lead, zinc, silver, gold and mercury), recently bought a New Mexico marble quarry...
...Decent Reticence. Since 1875, when a group of his farsighted neighbors bought up the small Vevey factory in which Henri Nestlé had been producing milk pap for babies, Nestlé has consistently been characterized by a rare combination of imaginative salesmanship and financial caution. With uninhibited confidence, Nestlé has made a success of peddling canned milk in dairy-rich Denmark and instant coffee in Brazil. Most of the company's earnings are poured back into expansion: its 70,000 shareholders, many of them Swiss farmers, get only a 1.2% annual dividend and equally meager information on Nestl...
Snell eats what he wants, pays no attention to his waistline, enjoys a beer after a race, and says: "The only milk I use is in my tea and on my cornflakes." He has never been to college. "A college would have you racing week after week," he says...