Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Automatic cow-washing machine that scrubs, rinses and massages a dairy cow in 4^ sec. Called "Cowash," the bovine bathhouse ($3,500 installed) promises a revolution in dairy production, especially for dairymen who live in states (California, Arizona, Florida) where laws require that dairy cattle be thoroughly washed before milking. By the usual inefficient and costly method, the cow has to be hosed down or herded into a soaking pen, and washing consumes about 30 gal. of water per cow. The Cowash, which uses about 3 gal. per cow, operates pretty much like an automatic automobile washer, with...
...patent medicine men made limitless claims. One ointment boasted that it could cure "ague in the face, swelled breasts, sore nipples, bronchitis, sore throats, quinsy, croup, felons, ringworms, burns, scalds, shingles, erysipelas, salt rheum, piles, inflammation of the eyes and bowels, bruises, fresh cut wounds, bilious cholic, scrofulous and milk-leg sores, inflammatory rheumatism and gout." Such was the gilded age of the patent medicine in America, as told by Historian Gerald Carson in One for a Man, Two for a Horse, published last week (Doubleday...
Pianos, Beef & Milk. Commissioned two years ago to stage The Spanish Lady, Dali dived into the project with his usual manic genius. The rising curtain revealed a ghostly painted image of Dali, mustache tips rising to eyebrows, eyes piercing the audience. As the gauze tableau faded out, the heroine came on, her two-yard-long tresses supported by a red crutch. Presently she extracted a pie-sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward...
Supernatural Success. The "weak chest," as the victim calls it, may be first considered a natural disease, and the curandero treats it with herbs and donkey milk. Since it does not respond, it is then rediagnosed as a supernatural disease, for treatment by a brujo, or witch doctor...
...sell modern medicine to the 2,000,000 holdouts, said Madsen, physicians will have to adopt some of the curanderos' tricks. When they give vaccines to ward off an epidemic, they can say that they are injecting holy water. As for TB: "If the doctors just added donkey milk to the regular treatment, it might work out a lot better...