Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...newspaper offered $100 prizes for water-saving ideas and got some good ones (first winner: don't rinse empty milk bottles). City hall was bombarded with suggestions, among them a proposal to ban shaving and a surefire formula for rain: hang a freshly killed snake in a tree. Mayor Robert Wagner became enthusiastic over the possibilities of rainmaking after reading a newspaper story about a new electronic device that was said to have dumped torrents on parched Escondido, Calif. As it turned out, Escondido had received less rainfall than New York−half an inch since July 1. Undaunted...
...Milk Sir: From the size and activity of the black market here in Ankara, it's a wonder Kusadasi isn't filled with people banished by the Turkish government for illegal trading [July 30]. Many shops carry a bewildering variety of American goods and sell them at enormous prices. The supply seems to be quite regular. We are Americans living on the Turkish economy, and it hurts to pay 20 Turkish lira (about $2) for a box of dry milk stamped...
...range from $2,186 to $2,347; delivery guaranteed within two to eight years). Bicycles are far more popular -and purchasable-hence India's 21 bike plants produce more than a million two-wheelers a year, and every bullock path has its flock of speedsters, carrying everything from milk to millet...
...reading of Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood" will be presented tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb Experimental Theater. Admission is free...
...price drop and Dictator Kwame Nkrumah's overly ambitious development schemes, the country is struggling with the severest economic crisis in its eight-year history. Factories in Accra are closing for lack of materials, and queues of shoppers form in the streets every morning for scarce butter, milk, rice, sugar, salt and drugs. Aggravating the plight of the cocoa producers is the fact that world output will rise 25% this year, even though some angry workers have burned tons of it in the fields...