Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...notice, stepped forward to address the Soviet Union's Supreme Soviet last week, was plainly the man who was running the show. For an hour and a half in the Great Hall of the Big Kremlin Palace he laid down the law on everything from the price of milk to the prospects of peace. It was his first policy speech as chief of state...
Such planned nonsense, docilely executed, had an eerie sadness all its own: a strange contrast to the scenes in the big receiving shed in Munsan. There, returning U.N. soldiers found it hard to remember what freedom was like. They laughed and cried, swallowed great quantities of ice cream, milk and boiled steaks, but asked timidly whether they could write more than one letter home...
...West Berlin food authorities handed out the two-millionth parcel to a needy East German. Thus, within a fortnight, more than 10% of the whole Soviet zone population have defied or evaded their government and risked arrest for a ten-pound package of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk...
...Sails in the Sunset, a chorus of little girls hailed a Baptist camping ground now abuilding in New Mexico. It is just about big enough (2,000 acres) to hold the twelve tribes of Israel, and it sounds, from the description of its boosters, like a land of milk & honey. From all over the U.S., some 3,000 Baptist Sunday-school teachers converged on Glorieta for seminars and steak fries, lectures and horseback riding, hiking and hymn-sings. It was their first glimpse of the camp, which, when it is finished in 1956 at an estimated cost...
Among the hardest hit has been the beleaguered dairy industry. A dairy-association survey showed that: I) at any given time, about one-quarter of the U.S. population is on a diet; 2) the first thing dieters are likely to give up is milk products. Per capita consumption of whole milk and butter has dropped 19% since the war. But consumption of low-calorie skim milk and nonfat dry milk has risen as much as 136%. To fight the diet menace, the dairy farmers will spend between $6 million and $10 million in the next year, touting milk...