Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Depression attempt to subsidize business by giving varying values to the peso (which had been traded freely at eight to the dollar). Depending on their utility, as evaluated by the bureaucracy, various imports got various rates; e.g., whisky was made proportionately more costly to import than milk. Export rates, too, were adjusted to let commodities-in theory at least-meet foreign competition; there was a "copper dollar," a "wine dollar," a "nitrate dollar" and a "sulphur dollar." Soon the government was in the satisfying business of creaming off a profit from exchange transactions...
...fires, hurricanes, frost and insects, the company wrote off the experiment as a loss and let Manager Graham keep as much of the land as he could pay taxes on. He began dairy farming. During the Depression, Phil took a year away from the University of Florida to drive milk trucks for his father. Later the elder Graham helped introduce beef cattle to Florida. Today, at 71, he runs a 7,000-acre empire with 2,500 head of dairy and Angus cattle, smack at the edge of the booming Miami environs, where 162 acres that he gave Phil...
...Currie left the U.S., became an economic adviser to the Colombian government, later resigned to buy a 500-acre ranch, where he raises cattle and supplies milk to Bogota. He avoids the U.S. colony in the capital, has announced that he considers Colombia his "real home," and is seeking citizenship there. Last week the State Department said that Lauchlin Currie, by staying abroad five years, had automatically forfeited U.S. citizenship...
...filled tanks with coffee beans he bought in Belgium for 60? per lb., concealed them with a small inner tank containing a few gallons of milk, resold the coffee on the German black market for up to $11 per lb. The scheme worked fine until German customs officials got suspicious, arrested him with a 5,500-lb. load ; of coffee. Friends in the Post Exchange service got him freed on $12,000 bail, and McLane promptly skipped the country. The Germans tried him in absence, found him guilty and sentenced him to seven months in jail...
Though he could no longer go to Germany, McLane found he could still make plenty of money there. To PX snack bars he sold, at 21.5? per qt., 250,000 qts. of chocolate milk monthly, all labeled "minimum butter fat content 2.6%." Independent tests in German laboratories showed it was actually skim milk that cost only 10^ per qt. to produce. Though he was forced to cut his price, McLane held on to orders for other dairy products, meat, fresh fruits and vegetables. As he blandly explained, he got and kept his contracts by bribing purchasing officials. Says...