Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million Romans decamped to their seaside villas and to public picnic grounds in the Abruzzi Mountains or at war-famed Anzio Beach. Shops, offices, banks, even Vatican City's Sistine Chapel, were closed up tight, though St. Peter's, as always, stayed open. Garbage went uncollected. milk undelivered, newspapers unpublished and tourists unsolicited by the prostitutes in Villa Borghese park. At his summer palace of Castel Gandolfo. Pope Pius XII rested for a couple of days; so did Premier Alcide de Gasperi and most of his political friends and enemies. Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti spent the weekend hiking...
...Stevenson rode to the Illinois State Fair, accompanied by a strapping cowboy actor firing two six-shooters into the air. He accepted a layer cake from a bakers' union and had his picture taken sipping a chocolate milk shake. Halfway through the milk shake, he handed it to a wide-eyed moppet, saying, "Here, you take this. You look undernourished...
...sister Mme. H. H. Kung until hospital accommodations could be arranged. The Duke of Windsor was recovering in Montecatini, Italy, from a "slight attack of indigestion" diagnosed by his doctor as the result of "too many invitations in this heat." He was ordered to limit his drinking to milk (with occasional mineral-water chasers) and his eating to meats and vegetables (thoroughly boiled) and stewed fruit. Writer Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith was in a hospital nursing 37 stitches in her face after an auto crash near Louisburg, N.C. Old New Dealer Paul Porter, now director of economic...
Three times a day for most of her 17 years, a lop-eared Holstein-Friesian cow by the name of Pansco Hazel has been herded into a white barn on the dairy farm of Frank Pellissier near Whittier, Calif, and milked. Her average daily production: 37 qts. In her time, purebred Hazel (out of Hazel Colantha Rag Apple de Kol by Pansco Sequoia Adventurer) has seen hand milking bow to the machine age, has had her milk pasteurized and homogenized, has had 13 calves and is again pregnant...
Last week the milking of Hazel was a notable event. With a redheaded young movie starlet named Joan Taylor (Queen of the Dairy Association) draped around her neck, and a national broadcasting company microphone recording the milking machine's gurgle, Hazel became the new champion milk cow of the world. She passed the record of 267,304 lbs. set by Ionia Ormsby Queen on Aug. 22, 1947. Hazel's lifetime production is worth more than $29,000, would fill nine tank trucks and run Whittier's dairy plant for 32 days...