Word: milkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Marie's glory was also glory for her milker. Kurt Kramer, onetime German P.W. who settled down after the war as a hired hand in the tiny Norman village of Ecardenville-la-Campagne. He attributed Marie's success to his secret feeding mixture of oats and hay, and to his own way with animals, which included addressing Marie as "Mein kleines Häslein" (my little rabbit) whenever he milked...
...apron they found a rubber hot-water bottle filled with preheated cream. A long, thin tube led from the bottle through the hay at Marie's feet and into the milking pail. By pressing the bottle with his forearms as he leaned forward to strip Marie, the milker could send squirts of cream into his milking pail. With this evidence in hand, the gendarmes bustled Kramer off to jail on the charge of fraud, and the dairymen of Normandy, with the solemnity demanded of the occasion, took steps to drop the name and claim to fame of Marie...
...press conference where he announced his plans, Wolfson also was questioned on how he has operated other companies that he has taken over. Asked one reporter: What about Wolf son's reputation for "milking" companies? Replied Wolfson: "I have been a milker of only one company-[Washington's] Capital Transit Co." This occurred in 1950, when Wolfson and friends bought working control (45.6%) of Capital at $20 a share, quickly paid themselves $30 in dividends from money in the till. Wolfson said that Capital was regulated by a public board, that the shareholders had only been getting...