Word: milke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shoes of all sizes. Another, more ominously, lists the political trials that are currently in progress. Inside the vestibule, a Franciscan nun in a brown habit tends an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Off to the side, a room is piled high with boxes containing toothpaste, soap, powdered milk and other items...
Consumers like the convenience of aseptics. Working mothers can easily stock up on milk and juices without worrying about spoilage. Tossed in the freezer the night before, the packages are still cold when they are pulled out at school for lunch. Children like the space-age packaging, the built-in straws and, most of all, the ear-splitting noise the empty boxes make when stomped. Says Ralph Graves, vice president of California's Real Fresh: "After the container's empty, kids blow it up and jump on it. It goes off like a 108-mm howitzer...
...must be pasteurized in the container for up to 45 minutes, the contents of aseptic packages are sterilized separately, in under one minute. This not only saves energy costs but also helps preserve flavors. In addition, food distributors do not need to use refrigerated trucks and warehouses to protect milk or juices...
...Milk producers are hoping that aseptics can help them regain some of the market share they have been steadily losing to other beverages. Dairymen, Inc., an 8,000-member cooperative based in Louisville, is now selling whole and low-fat milk in the new packs, as well as such flavored varieties as chocolate, strawberry, banana and fruit-punch milk. It is also exporting milk in aseptic packages to Nigeria and the Caribbean. Says Larry Johnson, Dairymen's vice president of marketing development: "It's opening up new markets...
...name from the fact that it was swampland reclaimed for farming beginning in the 17th century. This rich earth is gradually falling into the hands of interlocking conglomerates, and the play implies that the Japanese may eventually own it. Against this backdrop Churchill fashions a kind of Under Milk Wood as it might have been seen through the bleak, baleful eyes of Thomas Hardy...