Word: milked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bought a $10,000 herd of dairy cattle. For some cows it paid $950 although they had been offered previously for $200 apiece. The rich milk from the expensive herd was then traded for low-grade milk from commercial dairies. "Just why ... is not apparent," said the McCarl report...
Unlike the embattled National Recovery Administration, the Agricultural Adjustment Administration has no limited term of life, is continuable at the will of the President. But AAA is seeking from Congress additional powers: 1) to license the handlers of sugar beets, fruit, vegetables, milk, milk products, wool and 2) to pry into the records of all handlers and manufacturers of all AAA products (TIME, May 13). Contrariwise, handlers who hate the AAA have launched a determined counter-drive to make Congress reduce instead of extend AAA's sway. Peak of this agitation came last month when a delegation...
...germs. Therefore Professor Reyniers starts by putting a pregnant guinea pig into a germ-free operating chamber and by Caesarean section taking out her young. Those young he instantaneously puts into a sterile, airtight, air-conditioned cage. They nurse from a glass "mother," drinking sterile synthetic guinea pig milk of Dr. Reyniers' composition. The water and the solid food which they get later is also sterilized before being put into their cage. Portholes let Dr. Reyniers watch the guinea pigs. Two openings sealed with a pair of rubber gloves permit him to reach into the cage to handle...
Coal was getting scarce in his little hospital. However, Eskimos piled whale and walrus blubber at the back door in case blubber was needed for fuel.* Airplanes brought Dr. Greist canned milk for his patients and some serums. By wireless he informed the interested world that the three other white men and two trained nurses at Point Barrow were helping bring the epidemic under control...
...Jimmie") who fancies flashy clothes, horses, British women. Last week in San Francisco docked Baron Henri de Rothschild who is neither a spectacle like his cousins nor a banker like his ancestors. Most justly famed of living Rothschilds, he is a practicing physician who researched cancer and founded free milk stations in Paris, an essayist and playwright, a patron of the arts who built a $2,000,000 theatre in Paris, a perfumer, big-game hunter, winemaker. At the San Francisco pier to meet him on the return half of a round-the-world trip were his auto-racing...