Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to be picayunishly meticulous, although I am a college professor in civil engineering and a highways man (not to be confused with highwayman), but shouldn't your TIME, Nov. 13 description of the farm life of Artist Dahlov ZorachIpcar that she "does not milk or drive a car," have a comma after "milk," or read "does not drive a car, or milk" ? Or has Ford done something bovine to his autos...
...Federal Grand Jury found on Chicago's doorstep not just milk-bottles, but a milk monopoly that fixed prices to farmers and customers, controlled supply and distribution, harassed and coerced independents who tried to sell milk at lower prices...
Death reported. Norman Bethune, 49, Canadian doctor who successfully developed the handy wartime trick of storing blood in wine molds and milk bottles, using it for emergency transfusions as much as three weeks later; of septicemia contracted while operating; in Wutai-shan, China. Dr. Bethune joined the His-pano-Canadian Blood Transfusion Service during the Spanish Civil War, by his delayed transfusions saved the lives of thousands of wounded Loyalist fighters. His job in China's war, paid for by the Canadian and American Leagues for Peace and Democracy, was surgeon on the medical staff of the Communist Eighth...
Wrestling milk-cans on cold Minnesota mornings while his college classmates slept snugly, "Fierce" Butler thrust his way painfully on & up, became by the century's turn a crack railroad lawyer in the days when railroads were among the biggest U. S. corporations. To Wall Street, to conservatives, to Catholics he was a big name in 1922, when President Harding appointed him to the highest Court...
...Tabuteau did not so much mind the gout itself as the fact that it keeps him from his favorite occupation: eating. For Marcel Tabuteau is not only Philadelphia's first oboe player, he is also Philadelphia's most spectacular gourmand. "For two weeks I am on a milk diet!" he exploded. "Do you know what that is like? The hunger, it does not leave me. Whatever I do, wherever I go, it is like something I cannot take off. To me the cooking and eating are arts as great as music-maybe greater. One more week I shall...