Word: milke
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Hasty Pudding: a mixture of corn meal mush, spiced with salt, and served steaming with milk and molasses. --Theodore Chase in the Harvard Advocate...
...throwing 716 men out of work. In surrounding Scott County a monthly average of 7,000 persons -10% of the population-were on relief, getting beans, flour and potatoes. People were understandably riled that Iowa farmers, angered by the low prices they were getting at the markets, were dumping milk on the roads. That year 38 persons committed suicide in the county, reflecting the 42% rise in Iowa's suicides since 1928, the year before the crash of the stock market. The most popular song on station WOC was Brother, Can You Spare a Dime...
...weekly from Illinois to Iowa through the football season, he considered seeking a $12.50 a week post at Montgomery Ward, where his father Jack sold shoes. In those days, $12.50 was a good wage: at the big new A & P in Dixon, four cans of evaporated milk cost 19?; the price of 3 Ibs. of coffee was 49?, and 10 Ibs. of new potatoes went for 23?. For 75?, the Dixon dentists would pull a tooth by the "painless method," or so said their...
...Karasiewiczes' overriding concern is food, which consumes 50% of their income and much of their time. The plant in Ursus helps out. It furnishes employees with a hearty breakfast each day (fruit juice, soup or goulash, sausage, bread, coffee, tea or milk), and gives them coupons redeemable at the factory for 3.2 lbs. of meat per worker each month for about two-thirds of what it costs, when available, at the butcher shops. But when Maria gets off work after an eight-hour day finishing steel tractor parts, she must stand in the interminable queues at the neighborhood supermarket...
...women of TV who are in charge of waking up America may merely see the hour hand stretching inevitably toward 2, the minute hand reaching inexorably toward 12 and ... BUZZ! RING! It's time to get up again. Plug in the percolator, scramble the eggs, pour the milk over the granola...