Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.M.A. last week added its voice to those already raised in warning (TIME, Aug. 6), against two widely publicized new "wonder" diets: the "Rockefeller" (low-protein) diet and the "fabulous formula" diet of corn oil, dextrose and evaporated milk. The A.M.A. Journal reports noted that both diets could drop the patient below the minimum protein requirement, thus upsetting the bodily nitrogen balance and leading to a variety of deficiency diseases. "Fortunately, few people will adhere to either of these diets for long . . . But there are compulsive dieters, just as there are compulsive drinkers . . . and in these subjects harm...
Last week family budgets across the U.S. began to feel the impact. In Seattle barbers boosted haircut prices 25? (to $[.75). In Detroit the board of education warned that hot meals would cost the city's 272,000 schoolchildren 2? more this fall. Milk prices rose a penny a quart in Des Moines; bread jumped 2? a loaf in San Francisco. Diamonds were up 10% in Dallas. Clothing in some areas is going up 71%. Food also is expected to go higher, largely as a result of higher handling costs. Said a Memphis executive: "We're paying more...
...Certain paraffins used for coating milk containers...
...David Cope, a "pommy" (Australian slang for English immigrant) who runs a neighboring station, a pint-size affair of about 300,000 acres. Mollie goes off to Oregon with the ice-cream addict, Stanton, but when she discovers that the U.S. frontier has been all softened up by milk shakes and civilization, she returns to the rum and mutton of the Australian never-never to cope with Cope...
...unhappy coincidence, another Dole experimental diet invited the same kind of publicity. This was an unappetizing formula made of corn oil, evaporated milk and dextrose-10% protein, a whopping 48% fat and 42% carbohydrates. Vogue touted it as a "peasant diet," and last month the Ladies' Home Journal gave it the full treatment as a "fabulous formula...