Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Food stockpiles at home have shrunk $1.3 billion (to $6.7 billion) since 1960, now consist of 818 million bu. of wheat, 55 million tons of feed grains, 7.7 million cwt. of rice, and 126 million Ibs. of dried milk. Pointing out nonetheless that domestic commodity stockpiles "must be large enough to serve as a stabilizing influence and to meet any emergency," Johnson asked Congress to authorize establishment of reserves for certain strategic commodities. Such reserves, he said, would be built up and maintained by Government purchases on the open market rather than relying on accumulation through subsidies and price-support...
...Milk & the Moon...
...also a philosophy that has inspired countless imitators and led to the charge that such stripped-down structures add up to monotony. Not so for Mies: "Some people say that what I do is 'cold.' That is ridiculous. You can say that a glass of milk is warm or cold. But not architecture. You can be bored by architecture, however. I am bored by this stuff I see around me. It has no logic or reason...
...White does what he can with "gothic" grass around the Brown house, wormy quince trees, and the house itself, which is a sort of Greek Revival temple done in clapboard. It is amazing what can be done with mutton fat, bad drains, and skeins from bowls of bread and milk to convey the squalor of life and the hatred of it that is proper to fiction of this genre...
...inspected all the restaurant's provisions, was so scrupulous about caviar, for instance, that he once opened seven jars in a row before finding one that he considered satisfactory. He insisted on hand-dried Baccarat glasses and the finest wines, although he would also serve a bottle of milk to lohn F. Kennedy in a silver ice bucket as if it were champagne...