Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Efficient G. P. U. ''Every morning there is a bazaar down by the bay, with hundreds of Chinese selling a few radishes or a handful of onions or macaroni or rice, and peasant women with geese or chickens, butter, eggs, milk. The whole town jams into the square for the bazaar, and pickpockets do a rushing business. I saw the G. P. U. arrest 15 pickpockets in less than an hour...
With the light of cut glass chandeliers gleaming on his venerable emaciated stomach, St. Gandhi attended a formal banquet in Bombay last week, drank a little goat's milk, spoke for two hours before an audience in faultless evening dress. Same day he wrote an editorial for hi.-; weekly. Young India...
Cows of course are herbivorous animals. Their teeth, stomachs, and entire physiology are organized to get nutrition from grasses. As an experiment the dairymen mixed ground meat in Fanny's meals. After her calf was born (she is two years old), she yielded the unusually rich milk. The meat may be the cause; or Fanny may be an unusual builder of butterfat. At any rate, her milk churns into butter without the customary preliminary separation of cream...
Zenzinov got along well with the northern natives, who thought he was a wonderworker. None of them had ever seen a lamp before. "No one knew how bread was raised. . . . They had never seen milk or butter. . . . Neither the women nor the children had ever beheld a living tree." (Their firewood was flotsam from the Indigirka River.) The natives had plenty of caviar but did not know how to treat it, usually gave it to the dogs...
Said a U. S. technical expert at Irkutsk to Rover Wales: "There are three big shoe factories here but I have never been able to buy a pair of shoes and neither has anyone else I know. We pay $7.50 a pound for butter and $1.25 a quart for milk." Dean of the U. S. colony at Irkutsk is former U. S. Consul Fowler who has lived in Russia for 30 consecutive years, likes the country...