Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington press corps had no advance dope on the White House's well-kept secret, their editors nevertheless made good use of the hour between the White House "alert" and the actual announcement. Thanks to the odd time, they had a big story that radio couldn't milk dry before their papers hit the streets. They went after it with oldtime frenzy. Slot men, guessing what the news would be, dug out morgue cuts of MacArthur, dummied up screamer heads on alternate possibilities (MACARTHUR FIRED; MACARTHUR REBUKED; MACARTHUR QUITS). Most morning newspapers stopped their presses, replated, caught most...
Donors should eat two to four hours before giving blood and should not eat butter-fat foods such as butter or milk for breakfast or lunch on the day they expect to give blood...
...with his ministers, Franco labored to set things aright. The government decided to take over the rice crop and sell it at a fixed price; price ceilings were put on dried beans, peas, lentils (the four Spanish food staples); and price "supervision" was decreed for fish, vegetables, fruit and milk. The emergency outburst of economic controls had most Spaniards shaking their heads skeptically. If Franco looked at the record, they said, he would see that past attempts at price fixing shuttled scarce goods into the high-priced black market. And the black market reached into Franco's bureaucracy...
Madrid's Mayor Moreno Torres gave an example of the regime's difficulties. The capital's milk distributors, he said, were selling 40% more milk than was brought into the city each day. The mayor's theory: water had been added to the milk. Apparently, he had been unwilling, or unable, to do anything about...
...would prefer Manhattans or Martinis to highballs, she would drink 3.8 gallons of beer per academic year, and the college bulletin would claim that she also drank 255 quarts of milk in the same period...