Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scheme in southern Mozambique, into which Portugal hopes to lure 1,000 immigrant families from the homeland, as well as 500 more from Mozambique itself. Each new farmer will receive up to 25 acres of irrigated land, a new house, furniture and tools, as well as two bullocks, a milk cow, two pigs, five chickens and a rooster. The 14-village project serves two purposes: it takes the pressure off the government at home, where poverty and discontent are mounting, and it strengthens Mozambique's white population against the day when the "freedom fighters" decide to move...
...diet-drink boom is taking place side by side with a major shift in U.S. tastes to more offbeat flavors and less sweet soft drinks. Soft drinkers can now choose from more than 300 different labels, flavored with everything from cognac (Dr Pepper's Pommac) to coconut milk (Yoo-Hoo's Milkette). Schweppes' Bitter Lemon now accounts for a third of Schweppes' sales in the U.S., though it has only been on the market one year. Even Elsie the Cow is out to milk the market. Borden has just put on the shelves its first soft...
...milk laughter...
...felt hardest by the urban dwellers, who make up 18% of the population. A man and his wife, both employees of the Kerala state government at a combined wage of $84 per month, well above India's average, these days are forced to halve the family's milk consumption, cut out eggs entirely, and stretch the supply of rice by eating it in the form of soupy gruel. A Calcutta schoolteacher who makes $55 gives his children two meals a day, but can afford to eat only once daily himself. Worse off still is the hapless Bombay textile...
Though they are not provided for in the Constitution, they make important policy, execute it and sit as judges. There is hardly anyone in the U.S. who is not in some way affected by one or another of their acts. They fix the price of milk and electric power, decide where airlines can fly and pipelines snake, police the stock market and determine the content of a tube of lip stick. They are the nation's 30 federal regulatory agencies - and their great powers over American life and business have become increasingly controversial. Senator Everett Dirksen calls them...