Word: milked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Take four mixing-spoonfuls of Barbados molasses; two hen's eggs, or one loon's egg; one pint of creamy milk, or one pint of new-fallen snow which also has a rising virtue, and one pint of water. Beat this together...
...Mexico, Ceylon and other countries complained bitterly that they needed no advice from "an American capitalist." But Hawes took their complaints in stride. "I'm only trying to be constructive," he explained. "I doubt that there are five fanners here who can get up beside a cow and milk...
...casually as a switching engineman shunting a string of milk cars into a siding, the Pennsylvania Railroad announced last week that it will lop 40 passenger trains off its schedules, effective July 8. Twenty-five commuter trains will be dropped from Philadelphia's heavily traveled Main Line and other suburban areas; long-distance service in & out of Pittsburgh will be reduced by seven trains, and cuts will be made on trains going into Chicago, St. Louis, Baltimore and Buffalo. The Pennsy's explanation was curt and businesslike: it is losing money on passenger traffic and thinks that...
...line had all the energy of a high kick, his wit surpassed his exuberance, his knowledge of the human figure equaled his delight in it, and his touch was light as lace. He designed as well as the Japanese woodcut artists whom he most admired, and for their warm-milk sentimentality he substituted an absinthe bite...
...smooth-talking man in a hurry, stepped into Sylvania's vice presidency in 1942, at the age of 37. Even then he had a name among U.S. merchandisers as sales manager of Chicago's Marshall Field and as the man who had first persuaded dairies to put milk in paper containers. As marketing chief of American Can, he was the first to plug beer in cans. As sales manager of Pepsi-Cola, he sparked soft-drink sales with take-home cartons...