Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...October the ups and downs averaged out and the index held steady for the second month in a row at the August level of 123.7 (the 1947-49 average = 100). Up: new cars, women's and girls' clothing, rents, medical care, cooking gas, fresh vegetables, beef, milk. Down: house furnishings, men's and boys' clothing, fresh fruits, pork, eggs, poultry (lowest level since December 1942), restaurant meals (first decline since June 1956). The long-range outlook as most experts saw it: renewed upcreep in prices under the push of wage raises and heavy Government expenditures...
...your superstitions on good food--here is a little more information. Certain foods, such as meats, vegetables, and fruit (milk is not always on the lunch meal), are much easier to digest, and, therefore, better for the athlete before exerting himself. The price for all this is less than $5 a person (4,000 students x $5 equals $20,000), and you must also remember that each boy can eat only one meal, either at the varsity club or in his house...
Today at most U.S. colleges lion's teeth have been abandoned in favor of red meat, solid vegetables, milk, and fruit; but aside from this change in the menu, the ancient ritual goes on. And this is no less true of Harvard than any place else...
...pass on to stockholders a traditional holiday treat: an extra year-end dividend. P. Lorillard Co., still riding high on the sales of Kent cigarettes, voted a 95? extra, bringing dividends to $4 v. $1.95 in 1957. Extra dividends and 2-for-1 stock splits were approved by Pet Milk and Kellogg Co.; growing drug sales gave Chas. Pfizer & Co. stockholders a higher dividend, a year-end extra of 60? and a proposed 2½-for-1split...
...more tutelage than toot left in the ailing writer, and he liked to put together lists of required reading, e.g., Byron, Rabelais, the pre-Socratics. Said she: "You're pushing back the cuticle that's grown over my mind." But gin was still mother's milk to Fitzgerald whenever things went wrong, even though he recognized that "the escape was worse than the reality." These scenes of self-lacerating drunkenness are the most painful and morbidly fascinating parts of Beloved Infidel. Among the episodes: Fitzgerald aboard a plane raging at the stewardess and his fellow passengers...