Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...answer to Germany's unusual hesitation in the war. It became more & more obvious that Czechs are doing all they can to sabotage their stern protectors. Skoda's intricate machine guns have a way of being delivered with one tiny, essential part missing. Prague's milk cans have a way of leaving dairies with a tiny hole punched in them...
...State control boards (half the States have them), county & city health authorities, a multitude of laws play the same game. In 30 cities out of 129 studied, State law demands that store and home milk prices be identical. Health authorities can and do limit the milk supply by refusing to license and inspect farmers who want to sell in the city...
...Since 1933 the price of fresh delivered milk has been kept relatively higher than the cost of U. S. living in general, and from 1929 to 1936 per capita milk consumption dropped...
...fact that store distribution is much cheaper than home delivery has been established in many practical cases. Examples: Washington, D. C.'s Highland Farms sold milk through a chain of stations at 3? under the established 14? price and netted $75,000 in one year on a $100,000 investment. Safeway Stores' cost of delivering milk (including pasteurization, wages, depreciation, etc.) from farm to store customer through its 18-town Pacific Coast chain came to 3? a quart. Safeway complains that in many communities it would like to sell milk several cents cheaper than the law allows...
Today, although physicians know little more about hay fever than Dr. Holmes did, their attitude is more optimistic. To them the disease which annually sets 6,000,000 U. S. victims gasping is a common form of allergy: a bodily sensitivity to certain foreign substances such as eggs, milk, wheat, horsehair, pollen grains, banana oil. Once these substances get into the bloodstream of sensitive people, there ensue such violent reactions as hives, vomiting, blinding headaches, and what Henry Ward Beecher lovingly called "irrepressible sternutation" (sneezing...