Word: milked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anybody be misled by the vigorous appearance of the lightly burdened 43.7 million. That average $205 is like blood out of a turnip. Quite often it's more than that. It's a matter of skimping on the milk bill and skipping a pediatrician's appointment. MRS. E. B. SHEARBURN JR. San Antonio
...What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport), on their way to Honolulu. They savored every bite of filet mignon, drank two gallons of milk and leafed through magazines, admiring pictures of a girl they had never heard of named Gina Lollobrigida...
...Sale: Human Milk. The floods that devastated about one-tenth of Red China's farmland last year were the worst floods of the century; then, for central and southeast China, came the sharpest frost in 72 years, for south China the worst drought in 100 years. "The calamities were so serious," Red China's Agriculture Minister Liao Lu-yen reported to the Communist State Council, "that last year's food production was reduced by 25 billion catties [12.5 million tons]." Tientsin's Ta Kung Pao noted: "150 million peasants are short of food...
...counties in Kwangtung, 20 out of 74 in neighboring Kwangsi, where some of the people were down to eating tree bark, grass and domestic pets. In Canton, 4,000 peasants were arrested for petty thefts like grabbing grocery parcels from pedestrians; the city's milk powder for babies was considered so poor and unusable that human milk was getting onto the market...
Heinz faces a major problem in marketing its new line : old people do not like to admit they are old, often shy away from special preparations for them. (Borden's Gerilac, a milk product for oldsters, flopped.) Heinz hopes to overcome consumer resistance by an educational advertising campaign, plans to expand into vegetables, fruits, custards...