Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interest in livestock began with the discovery that its antibiotic, terramycin, when mixed with the feed, increases the growth rate of pigs. At first the Pfizer pigmen tried feeding terramycin to the brood sow, in hopes that some of the strengthening drug would filter down in her milk. This proved impractical; it took too much terramycin. Then Pfizer decided to take the piglets away from their mothers at the age of two days and raise them on synthetic sow's milk spiked with terramycin...
...beginning of the year official imposed a limit on the amount of milk and coffee that could be taken in the Graduate School Dining Halls...
...Milk. Brooklyn's Chas. Pfizer & Co. has developed a synthetic sow-milk called "Terralac," fortified with the antibiotic Terramycin. With Terralac, farmers can take baby pigs, which usually suckle for 56 days, away from the sow within 48 hours, prevent the newborn from being crushed by its clumsy mother. In experiments, Terralac cut down infant pig mortality to 5% (v. normal...
...With her Russian-born husband, Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater, room for sport (Gene Tunney learned to box in the Greenwich House basement). A gay, grandmotherly type, Mrs. Sim once said: "I hate to be pictured as a lovely woman doing good...
Lesser functionaries, just as cute, dispensed beer, food, soft drinks and cigarettes. There was a mass milk bath for sensitive males in a huge, raspberry-tiled tub on the second floor; a lemonade bath for ladies on the first. There were private rooms with beds and attendants for after-bath relaxation, a roof garden, a nightclub, a tea room, three restaurants, a barber and a beauty shop. Visitors (among them Errol Flynn) and customers, spending a relaxed Saturday evening at Konomi's Hot Springs, thought nothing of getting a bill of $100 or more. It was, in short...