Word: milked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bought Cuernavaca's Hotel Chula Vista, opened a decorating shop and a furniture factory, dabbled in real estate, bought interests in banks and insurance companies. He made electric appliances and started a razor-blade factory. He brought powdered milk from Wisconsin, mixed it with water and sugar, and sold it as a milk for Mexican babies. By last year, when the black list expired, he had grown very fond of Mexico, and of his growing empire there...
...their search for the organism that British scientists hunted in vain for 18 months (TIME, Dec. 22), Drs. Topping and Atlas first used sterile skimmed milk to wash the nose of a man just catching cold. The solution was sprayed into the noses of volunteers (inmates of the District of Columbia's Lorton Reformatory, who were paid $3 a week). They caught cold, too. Washings were then transplanted into chick embryos; solutions from the eggs produced the same thick "sinusitis-like" colds in other volunteers. All told, 57 of 60 human guinea pigs came down with colds...
...seemed to have a safety-valve passion for nonsense, there was nothing queer about it. Edward Lear's volumes of limericks, his world of Jumblies, scroobious snakes, runcible spoons and Dongs with Luminous Noses, set English gentlemen roaring into their port and schoolkids giggling into their bedtime hot milk...
Most urgently needed foodstuffs include fats of all kinds, cooking oils, sugar, canned meats, and dried milk and eggs to supplement the "monotonous diet of 1500 calories per day" and to ward off constant cold, it went...
John D. Rockefeller made his pile in oil, Andrew Carnegie in steel, but William A. Clarke, III, '51, has started his race in the traditional American derby for greenbacks with a prospering business of merchandising milk and doughnuts to esurient Yardlings...