Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the 500 employees of Sheffield machine tools factory "mashed" (Sheffield lingo for brewed) their own tea at midmorning, lunchtime and midafternoon. They brought their own tea, milk, sugar, mugs and teapots, got boiling water from the firm's gas boilers...
...known cure for rheumatoid arthritis, the disease often burns itself out in time. For patients trying to keep in good shape during the long, painful siege, the University of Iowa's Dr. William D. Paul had some homely hints: for fingers and wrists, wash dishes; for fingers alone, milk cows; for toes and ankles, pick up marbles with the toes; for back and abdomen, try gardening. The very weary, said Dr. Paul, could give hips and knees a stiff workout in a rocking chair...
...provide uniform-quality meats by ordering directly from packers. He persuaded more than half of them to stock prepackaged fresh fruits and vegetables, started putting out I.G.A. labeled products. Example: two months ago, an I.G.A. wholesaler in Champaign, Ill. made a deal with a local dairy to supply milk with a special I.G.A. label. Such mass purchasing helped I.G.A. stores to cut the price of milk 2? a quart to 19? and still make a 2? profit. Milk sales increased...
Lean Butter. To recapture some of the butter market lost to margarine, a group of officials of the Iowa Department of Agriculture will soon begin selling a butter called Dairy Spread, which is made of non-fat dry milk and 58% butter fat (v. 80% and more in regulation butter). The spread will be marketed by Dairy Foods Co., a Nashua, law firm set up by the Agriculture men. Price: about 20? a lb. cheaper than ordinary butter...
...skillful distortion of reality and a triumph of line over mass that is characteristic of much contemporary art. The Tell Tale Heart goes far beyond such experimentation. Moviegoers may be more dazed than frightened by its explosion of color and form, by the haunting transformation of staring eyes into milk pitchers and tables into tombstones, as the madman murders to find peace and then hysterically confesses his crime to three iron-faced (and sometimes headless) policemen...