Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...butchers, the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. is equipping New York-Washington passenger trains with stainless-steel-and-plastic vending wagons designed by the Coca-Cola Co. Manned by attendants trained to tinkle a polite bell instead of loudly hawking their wares, the carts have insulated containers for hot coffee, cold milk, fruit juice, soft drinks, also carry sandwiches, fruit, pastry, doughnuts, cakes, candy...
Some of the Scranton union tactics were as simple as a tooth-busting fist. Others were more ingenious; e.g., threatening to douse the milk, eggs and butter of a nonunion dairy truck with kerosene, and pouring sugar into the gasoline tank of a steam roller on a highway construction job. (One of the goons gave his left-over sugar to a girl friend for household use.) Soft-spoken William E. Cochran, a construction foreman for a nonunion firm, told how the threats of union goons drove him to the Scranton city solicitor. James McNulty, for protection. McNulty, it turned...
DRANO (caustic soda): drink lots of water or milk, counteract the alkali with a weak acid such as diluted vinegar, lemon or orange juice...
TRIOX (arsenic): wash stomach with two to three quarts of water followed by glass of milk, give sodium sulfate as cathartic, give oxygen and transfusions as needed...
...they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again on its own bottom, though we cannot expect to let them eat cake and have it too. A remarkably clear statement...