Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is no danger that the College's milk supply will be completely cut off because milk is bought from two firms, one of which is not striking...
Radcliffe and Harvard fare better than most institutions, restaurants, and homes around Boston. About 1800 drivers and processing workers stopped work in 13 companies yesterday. "More than half the milk consumers in the Greater Boston area are affected by the strike," company spokesmen said...
Union officials said the strike was called because dealers would not arbitrate certain issues. The proposal to cut Sunday milk deliveries, which would have meant the loss of 600 jobs, was one of the most pressing issues...
...Milk is the staple of the scholastic diet. No food seems quite so aesthetically and physically moving, with its symbolic purity, smooth digestibility, and excellent properties for soothing the intestinal queasiness of a hangover. In fact, while it was with us, students had to be implored to restrain themselves to two glasses a meal. That is why the impending shortage due to a strike poses a grave problem for the University...
Neither coffee nor tea (with or without ice) can take milk's place. There is but one beverage that can both nourish and quench thirsts. Its use would be a triumph for the forces of gracious living. A hearkening to the academic customs of our forefathers, its reinstitution would find endorsal both in hoary tradition and the hearts of undergraduates...