Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Adventure (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Scientists milk the venom from a rattlesnake...
Past Failure. In his 25 years of brutal collectivization and regimentation of the peasantry, Stalin failed to wrest enough food out of the Russian soil to feed his people; the output of some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
Flying in the face of dietary fads, reducing pills and skim-milk regimens, stirringly stacked (5 ft. 4 in., no Ibs.) Actress Janet (A Girl Can Tell) Blair, who feels 17, looks 25 and is 32, handed out an astonishing prescription for chubby ladies who starve themselves in vain. Advised she: "Try overeating. That's how I stay slim. By eating as much as the average man, a woman gets the energy she needs to burn up her fat. Heavens! You're too weak to do it on a starvation diet. Shovel down big helpings...
...that as many stockholders as possible can attend. Matson lines takes its stockholders on a gala tour of its luxury liner Lurline. Chas. Pfizer & Co., maker of antibiotics, once brought in eight piebald baby pigs and a testy tiger cub to demonstrate the benefits of a new synthetic milk product. Chesapeake Industries perked up its annual meeting this year with a special preview of Hollywood's Crossed Swords, starring Errol Flynn and Italy's buxom Gina Lollobrigida, to show off a new film process developed by one of its subsidiaries. To entice stockholders to come to its meeting...
...equipment and boost their costs. For their part, the railroads will get some much-needed extra revenue. Says Erie's Traffic Vice President Harry W. Von Willer: "Trucks take only the kind of business they want. They skim off the cream. We can't live on milk. We want cream." The New York Central alone figures that piggybacking will boost its gross $80 million a year. To motorists, piggybacking is also good news; it should remove many truck trailers from the roads...