Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assets: $175,000,000). Although Drug owns the Liggett drugstores, its chief source of income is from making and selling such products as Fletcher's Castoria, Life Savers, 3-In-One Oil, Danderine, Bayer's Aspirin, Vitalis, Vick's Vapo-Rub, Phillips' Milk of Magnesia, Ingram's Shaving Cream, Gastrogen Tablets, Sal Hepatica, Ipana, Cascarets and scores of other things to purge, beautify, bolster and assuage mortal beings. A lesser fount of Drug income is in its control (75%) of Boots Pure Drug Co., Ltd., the owner of the 900 famed Boots Cash Chemists shops...
...pocket, in Manhattan. Last seen with him was a drunken doorman whose salary had just been cut from $100 to $60 a week. Fop, playboy, sinister character, he specialized in taxicab organizing, introducing cabs with silver-piped hoods, was quick to turn an ambiguous penny at anything (liquor, milk, night clubs, etc.), was never convicted of a felony...
...cheap automobile; cooking his own meals; living in poor lodgings; mortgaging his future by borrowing money; combining with others in buying books, or buying none at all. "There are too many men," said Dean Rivenburg. "who are trying to live from week to week. They have a pint of milk and a slice of bread for breakfast and one meal...
Similarly last month spoke Joseph Aidrich Bursley, dean of students at the University of Michigan. Said he: "Every few days there comes to my office the report of some student who is living in an attic on $1.50 a week, on milk and bread or crackers, with an occasional can of beans. . . . It would be better if they would stay out a year with the hope of earning enough to support themselves decently in school at some future date...
...against. In a decade and one-half Prohibition had been argued threadbare. There was nothing new or sensational left to say. Only stunt: appearance before the House of New York's Sirovich, a physician, with 18 bottles of beer, a pint of Scotch whiskey, a quart of milk and a declaration that the 18 bottles of beer contained the same amount of alcohol as the pint of whiskey, that in physical composition the beer and milk were equally good as food...