Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Human Milk & Polio...
...your medical column it was reported that certain elements in human milk seemed to make the polio virus less active [TIME, May 29]. I have been wondering if human milk might not be a key to the entire polio mystery...
Soon the cold, canned, front-line menus will really be more edible, the Army Quartermaster Corps promised. G.I. powdered eggs, thanks to peacetime research, will now taste more like the fresh; powdered milk and milk fats will be shipped overseas separately, whipped together just before mealtime to seem more like bottled milk; canned bread and poundcake are guaranteed to hold their shape and taste for two years in any climate. The old "K" ration even has a new name-an "assault food packet"-and will be fortified by a new variety of canned meats, besides old familiars: crackers, chocolate, cigarettes...
...came to their village in central Greece, both Costas Psofios and Dimitrios Golfis lost their homes by fire. Like thousands of other homeless Greeks, they took to the road, eventually settled down on a rocky hillside near Athens. Psofios prospered, soon had a sizable herd of goats, whose milk he sold in an Athens suburb. Golfis did not fare so well; his small plot of land barely supported him and his son Andreas. Finally, 64-year-old Golfis was forced to go to work for 34-year-old Psofios, tending his goats...
...last March, 50 people in the Pangrati section of Athens were seized with violent stomach pains, fever and nausea. It was found that they all bought their milk from Psofios. Police questioned Psofios, who insisted that his milk could not possibly be impure. Ten days later, Pangrati's first-aid stations and hospitals were again jammed by more than 150 men, women & children, all showing the same agonizing symptoms. Chemical analysis showed that they had been drinking milk poisoned by Trionol (a poisonous chemical used in Greece to clean marble and porcelain objects, including toilets). None of the victims...