Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Much? As one trophy of his pace, Bee now nurses a permanent batch of milk-fed ulcers. But nothing in the world, he likes to think, could persuade him to slow down or give up one of his jobs. He gets too much satisfaction out of his multiple roles...
Asses' Milk. Last week, at its headquarters in Chicago's Civic Opera Building, EB was getting ready to celebrate a milestone in its history: its 50th year under U.S. ownership. Meanwhile, the 1951 printing (prices: $239.95 & up) had just gone to press, with 38 million words, 17,600 illustrations, and 41,200 articles from 4,060 contributors. But in spite of all this, EB's editorial board could hardly pause for breath. "You may be just about completed with 1951," says Editor Walter Yust of his job. "But then you've already started...
...been any relief of finishing. Its first edition appeared in 1768 in Edinburgh: three volumes put out by a "society of gentlemen." To these gentlemen, California was "a large country of the West Indies," a toothache could be cured by "laxatives of manna and cassia dissolved in asses' milk," and tobacco could dry up the brain to "a little black lump." Later, as knowledge grew and changed, the Encyclopaedia Britannica had to grow and change with...
Worn to a frazzle with casting problems for his new circus picture, The Greatest Show on Earth, Director Cecil B. DeMille dutifully posed for a pressagent's picture with a "hopeful starlet" licking his hand. The starlet: "Little Tyke," a four-year-old vegetarian lioness, raised on Pablum, milk and corn flakes...
...farm prices since Korea, were still selling below parity. Oranges on Nov. 15 (when parity was last computed) brought the grower an average $1.46 a box or 39% of parity, and before the Government could control oranges the price would have to rise to $3.70 a box. Similarly, milk would have to go up 13%, wheat 15%, corn 17%, butter fat 18% and potatoes 51% before price ceilings could...