Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make some change in the Government's dairy industry program. With dairy products supported at 90% of parity, producers continued to churn out huge surpluses to be piled up in Government warehouses (TIME, Feb. 15). Because prices were held high by the Government, butter and other milk products were being priced off thousands of U.S. tables. A year ago, representatives of the dairy industry promised to develop a workable plan to cope with overproduction. They failed...
...blended price plan, which has ranked high at the Agriculture Department for several weeks, got a new boost last week when representatives of the National Milk Producers Federation called on President Eisenhower to adopt it. The milkmen were escorted by none other than Vermont's Senator George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The blend plan, like each of the others, has its opponents. Among them: some big buttermen, who think that it might permanently undermine the butter price structure...
Churning Disaster. All of the plans under consideration have their shortcomings, and all of them would milk the U.S. Treasury to some degree. But Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson and his staff know that they will have to choose some way of dumping the surplus within the next few months. Chief reason: despite careful refrigeration and some turnover in the stock, the stored butter will soon begin to go rancid...
Butter is not the only surplus milk product stacked up in U.S. warehouses. Also on the shelves are 271 million lbs. of Cheddar cheese, 449 million Ibs. of dried milk. Total value of butter, cheese and milk: $358 million...
Berlin-born Karl Zerbe, who dislikes oils, has painted with egg yolk, casein, fig milk, wax soap, Duco auto enamel and hot beeswax. His wax technique-a revival of the ancient encaustic method in which colors are mixed with hot wax and afterwards cooked into the canvas-brought him critical acclaim. But in 1949, things began to go wrong. Zerbe started suffering from asthma, found that he was allergic to beeswax...