Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peanuts in the Parks. Corn Senators, milk Senators, wheat Senators, cotton Senators, hog Senators, rice Senators and peanut Senators had formed a series of log-rolling alliances. They pushed through an increase in corn acreage, a two-price system for wheat, a dual parity plan covering cotton, wheat, corn and peanuts, a two-price plan for rice, mandatory support prices for feed grains and higher supports for dairy products. Then, in a crowning touch of irresponsibility, they voted to "set aside," i.e., ignore, much of the stored surplus commodities. Asked Vermont's exasperated Aiken: "Why not a formula which...
...forces in Europe is a 35-year-old ex-G.I. by the name of Robert T. McLane. McLane's huge fleet of refrigerated trucks delivers American-style white bread twice weekly to U.S. units from Berlin to Bordeaux; every day he ships eleven freight cars of fresh milk to Army mess halls and post exchanges. At the delivery entrance of Paris' U.S. embassy, at the private billets of American officials, at some 400 service clubs and European restaurants, McLane's trucks roll up with everything from fresh celery to fresh caviar, from pineapple to pretzels. Last...
When he discovered that the Army spent $1,000,000 yearly just to handle : empty milk bottles, McLane cannily worked out a deal to import U.S. machinery for packaging milk in cardboard containers. To pay for the equipment, he borrowed $250,000 from the Dutch reconstruction bank, then signed up The Netherlands' giant Sterovita Corp. to supply the milk, through McLane, for all U.S. forces in Europe...
Coffee Cache. Because he could use Post Exchange permits to transport his milk across the German border without paying customs, McLane got the idea of smuggling coffee into Germany in the; tank trucks he used for bulk deliveries...
...which is not without its threatening aspect. They are a "community of learning." Durn tootin'. It's their sneaky way of packing the tutors and other helpful types in so close you can't breathe. The teacher-student ratio around here is 1 to 7, and the way to milk the most out of the ratio is to stack tutors and students in the same entries, like wildcats in a laundry bag. People think I run up and down stairs because I'm busy. Busy, hell. My tutor lives between me and the bottom of the stairs. Every time...