Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vegetables, fish, and fruit also fall into the weekly contract system, but commodities like milk, coffee, and eggs are ordered daily by the individual units--Adams House or the Union, for example. These orders require Heaman's confirmation but do not go through his office...
Synthetic Hormone. After working for many years on the mixture of powerful hormones secreted by the pituitary gland at the base of the brain, Biochemist du Vigneaud succeeded in isolating oxytocin, which stimulates the uterus contractions of childbirth and starts the flow of milk. Then he took oxytocin apart and determined its chemical structure. Final step was to make it synthetically. This was an extremely difficult job, because oxytocin is a polypeptide, a protein-like compound made of eight amino acids, and probably the most complex substance ever synthesized. But Dr. du Vigneaud's synthetic hormone passed all tests...
After Powers' concession, Hynes made two speeches, one in his Milk St. headquarters and one in the Sheraton-Plaza. A campaign worker estimated that a "noisy" crowd of about 400 people heard the mayor speak. "Why shouldn't everybody rejoice?" she commented. "Mayor Hynes won the election...
Solomonic wisdom); the three-meals-a-day routine is too arbitrary.
...Girl in the Red Velvet Swing [20th Century-Fox). One fine day when the century was young, and men of insight were wondering what the peekaboo waist might lead to. John Barrymore took a chorus girl named Evelyn Nesbit to supper. He ordered a glass of milk, and floating a rose petal on it. murmured seductively: "That is your mouth." Furthermore, he declared. "You are a quivering pink poppy in a golden, windswept space." John was a poor young cartoonist in those days, and all he could pay was compliments, but there were many wealthy wolves on the prowl...