Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eggs. Most of his customers looked ill. A few even spoke up to say they didn't want any. It did them no good at all. Laughing Bill served them. They ate. More customers came in until there were 20 in all. Bill served them too. Milk, he decided, was the drink for everyone. He kept pouring it. The customers kept drinking it, eyes rolling as if they were downing hemlock...
Sugar & Salt. Charlie's wife came down with pneumonia. For a while the Steens . owed $300 in grocery bills, had no money to buy milk for their ten-week-old baby; they fed him weakly sugared tea instead. Winter evenings, Steen foraged for coal at a nearby railroad. Then, when things looked blackest, Bad Luck Charlie's luck began to turn...
...rush was so great that the stores sold out in the first hour and had to be replenished. Lining up in block-long queues, hungry East Berliners bought 25,000 kilos of potatoes, 12,000 liters of milk at a fraction of the prices charged in their Communist paradise (to encourage customers, Kressmann accepted East zone marks at par, instead of at the usual price of five East marks to one West mark). Anyone who could produce an East German identity card had his choice of five oranges (at 1? a piece) or two pounds of cherries (3? a pound...
...Wedding and Neukölln boroughs, the scene was the same. Hungry, hurrying thousands, carrying empty bottles and string bags, streamed into West Berlin to buy a few cupfuls of milk and a handful of fresh cherries. This week they were back, with thousands more. Mayor Kressmann gave East Germans food coupons enabling each to buy five marks' worth of butter, margarine, meat and other foods...
Surprisingly, milk was indicated as the carrier of disease in only three outbreaks throughout the U.S., and only three minor cases were traced to milk products: one each to cheese, ice cream and eggnog. Still more surprising, only one outbreak (66 cases) involved shellfish. Otherwise, the old standbys in the spoilage and upset-stomach routine were to blame: cream-filled pastries, ham, turkey, chicken and tuna fish salad...