Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rhode Island's grandest old man. Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, rose as usual at 7 a.m., breakfasted on an apple, an orange, wheat flakes, toast, and a glass of milk. Then, in his ancestral mansion in Providence, he turned his attention to all sorts of packages, greeting cards, phone calls. It was his 92nd birthday. Bachelor Green, an infantry officer in the Spanish-American War, was pleasantly bored with his celebrity as the oldest man ever to serve in the U.S. Congress. But he bridled at an interviewer's query as to whether he plans...
...seems foolish to station six or seven people earning $1.30 per hour or more, behind a counter to dish out food when three could do an adequate job. An automatic milk dispenser would serve as well as a part-time employee--and is there a real need to station a person behind the coffee urn at luncheon when one-fifth or less of the students may want a hot drink? Since labor does make up such a large part of the board rate, primary economies should be made in this direction...
...student who must devour three servings of beef and potatoes could be required to pay a nominal sum for the extra helpings. Why should moderately-eating people subsidize those who load their trays wtih two or three layers of delicacies? The rule limiting each undergraduate to two glasses of milk can be profitably enforced; after all, each glassful costs six cents...
Both Conway and Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, said they thought that there might be a great deal of waste in milk and butter, but that the upcoming experiments and inquiries should find out exactly how much...
...that it seemed permanent, has been eliminated. Agriculture Department allocated last 20 million Ibs. to school lunch program. Government will still buy butter, give it away to schools and welfare groups as production increases next spring, but grand-scale surpluses of past years are unlikely to recur. Reason: overall milk production has failed to increase in proportion to consumer demand...