Word: milk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Working on techniques for removing strontium 90 from milk...
...handling and storage costs alone amount to roughly a billion dollars a year. The CCC's inventories (not counting the farm products stored under current crop loans (include 972 million bu. of wheat, 712 million bu. of corn, 4.7 million bales of cotton, 484 million Ibs. of dried milk...
After 106 years of peddling milk and ice cream, the Borden Co. next month will move into pickles too. When Borden's acquires a Michigan pickle firm called Aunt Jane's Foods, no mouths will pucker in the modest Madison Avenue building from which robust Borden President Harold W. Comfort, 66, bosses an operation stretching from Argentina to Australia. Milk and milk products still account for 73% of Borden's sales, but Borden's has diversified so widely-into everything from applesauce to acetylene, wall coverings to wax beans-that no one is surprised any longer...
Cows on Shipboard. Borden's founder. Gail Borden, set up the company to condense milk after learning that some transatlantic ships carried herds of cows to keep passengers supplied with fresh milk. In 1875 the company moved into fresh milk, lapped up so many smaller dairies in the late 1920s that it was soon the biggest U.S. milk distributor. It did not spread far beyond milk products until the mid-1930s, when it developed its own synthetic resin glues for plywood, furniture and. eventually, automobile brake linings. After World War II, it moved on to other chemical products, including...
Dieters & Jerseys. Because bulk buying of milk in supermarkets has replaced home delivery, Borden's is moving away from its longtime role as one of the biggest U.S. milkmen. Now it acts principally as supplier, but it still has to worry about the threat to fat-rich dairy products from dieting and cholesterol consciousness. Borden's has met the challenge by producing its own 900-calorie Ready Diet and Lifeline, a lowfat, high-profit fortified milk. For dieters, it also pushes its buttermilk, skim milk and cottage cheese...