Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city line No. 8 was stopped by a red block signal while just ahead a freight backed into a siding to clear the main line. No. 8's flagman sprinted back with red lantern and track torpedoes. Several minutes behind No. 8 out of Binghamton was a fast milk train (No. 2). At the throttle was Engineer Martin ("Biddy") King, 62, heavyset, red-faced veteran of the Erie service. As he approached B D tower, the block signal changed from red (stop) to yellow (caution). An air whistle tooted in his cab as part of the automatic train control...
...yellow-haired little girl with her milk teeth missing stood on the Button Lumber Co.'s wharf at Poughkeepsie one noon last week and waved frantic farewell to her grandfather on a big white yacht easing out into the Hudson River. At the Nourmahal's rail stood "pop," otherwise the President of the. U. S., waving back to his six-year-old granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt ("Sistie") Dall. Also on the wharf were "Sistie's' flaxen-haired young mother, Anna Roosevelt Dall, "Sistie's" white-haired great-grandmother, Sara Delano Roosevelt who, a few minutes before...
...looks as if the College dining halls would serve nothing stronger than milk this fall. According to Massachusetts' hastily drawn law regulating the sale of beer, the 3.2 beverage cannot be sold to anyone under 21, which rules out most undergraduates. While the law is universally ignored in the State, it is felt that a College should do no wrong...
...cutting a few lines of barbed wire, running to a nearby German airdrome, hitting a mechanic on the chin and flying home. But even in War-time international law operates to extradite civilians and soldiers charged with rape and murder. On the night of Fairbanks' escape, a milk delivery girl was found on the camp grounds raped and murdered. Nearby was Fairbanks' coat and a letter to him from Howard's wife, which is shown to Howard. Soon a German plane drops a note, countersigned by Prisoner Howard, requesting Fairbanks' return. On the front-line...
...Eldred Kenneth Musson, State epidemiologist, arrived in St. Louis, began whipping physicians and Washington University scientists into committees for field work, laboratory study, preparation of case-history questionnaires. The U.S. Public Health Service planned to spend $10,000 in research. After careful study, spreading by food, water or milk seemed ruled out. So did case-to-case infection. Only two families had more than one case, and there was no other known contact between sufferers. Dr. Leake thought the evidence indicated transmission by a carrier, human or otherwise. Superintendent William George Patton of the St. Louis County Hospital considered...