Word: milked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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People in Phoenix, Ariz., have, or at least have reason to think they have a grievance. Railroads charge them $1.19½ per 100 pounds to ship their canned milk 400 miles across the border to Guaymas, Mexico. New York manufacturers pay only $1 per 100 pounds to ship canned milk 3,700 miles to Guaymas...
...this sound and simple reason for the difference in rates between certain long and short hauls does not lessen the grievance of Arizona milk canners in competition with New York, does not enable Senator Smoot to build up teeming wool industries in yawning Utah...
...Representatives of Rhode Island in the U. S. Congress to submit the question to a national referendum. In Wisconsin, the Butter Makers Association launched a campaign to line up all dairymen on the dry side, on the ground that a dry U. S. would spend millions more on milk than a wet U. S. In New York, the supposedly dry Republican majority of the Assembly was broken and the enforcement act failed to pass...
...against prohibition? (See PROHIBITION.) 2) What nation was nominally responsible for deadlocking the League Council at Geneva? (See THE LEAGUE.) 3) What magazine for April carries a well-documented, brief comparative history of commercial aviation in the U. S.? (See AERONAUTICS.) 4) What makes cows give more milk? What (same thing) makes hens lay more eggs? (See Music.) 5) Whose 83-year-old sister heard tributes by radio in her Brooklyn home? (See POLITICAL NOTES.) 6) Who dared to defend the five Fascists accused of the murder of Socialist Matteotti? (See ITALY.) 7) In what act of Ibsen...
...therapy." Just the thing, he said, for hysteria. Ladies in the audience were asked to close their eyes, relax, while a pianist concealed from view played soothingly, monotonously, Schubert's Serenade, Vice President Dawes' Melody in A. Good for cows, too, he said, makes them give more milk (see MEDICINE, p. 28), makes hens lay more eggs, helped Saul's insanity, cured Gladstone's rheumatism. Fourteen Manhattan hospitals are using music in their tuberculosis wards, he said. "With proper care, diet, sanitation and music we can all live to be 150 years...