Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journey back home that the Easterners feared most. The despised Volkspolizei were now checking all trains. Often they confiscated the parcels outright, and sent the lard, canned milk and beans along to their barracks. But those who merely lost their much needed gifts were lucky. The Vopos fined or arrested many. Some were accused of being American agents, a crime punishable by imprisonment or death, and to others the courts began meting out prison sentences as drastic as five years. On top of threat and punishment, the Reds tried by public ridicule to halt the sad parade of their hungry...
Inching upward for a fifth straight month, the Government's fever chart on living costs touched a record 114.7 in mid-July (base: 100 for average prices in years 1947-49). Reason: increased rents, some higher food prices (pork, poultry, eggs, fresh milk), higher costs of medical care and transportation. Result: 1?-an-hour wage raise for a million aircraft and automobile workers, whose pay is tied to the cost-of-living index...
...Broadway celebrity, she cared little for café society. Five out of six nights, after the show was over, she would go home with Cathleen Nesbitt and gossip happily over yoghurt and milk. Seeming both more naive and more sophisticated than most girls of her age, Audrey Hepburn, at 23, was a piquante mixture of adolescent bounce and womanly dignity. She could convulse friends with a hilarious imitation of Jerry Lewis, or pay a duty call, with all the necessary grace and assurance, on visiting Queen Juliana of The Netherlands...
...food. The Reds temporarily eased up, then put the ban back on. They seemed uncertain how to act: remembering the uprisings of June 17, they dared not push their people too hard. For what people would do to get those ten pounds of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk was a measure of their desperation and dissatisfaction...
...After such a triumph, his owner might properly have gone on a nightlong celebration. Instead, hefty Earl Wagner, 35, grabbed the first plane ride of his life to hurry back to his home in Landover Hills, Md. By three-thirty next morning he was busy as usual, driving his milk truck around Washington...