Word: milkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zagreb, Yugoslavia, a State Department-sponsored Porgy and Bess opened with a thunderous, 20-minute ovation. Crowds followed members of the cast through the streets, and Greta Slmntch, who flawlessly played the part of Porgy's goat, gave two liters of milk a day besides. "They loved you in Zagreb," New York Herald Tribune Columnist Art Buchwald cabled the producers, "and that means they'll love you anywhere...
...Ingersoll people were pulled out of a bad financial hole by a terrific run on their Mickey Mouse watches-of which more than 8,000,000 have been sold to date. Since 1929 Mickey's name or picture has appeared on 5,000 different lines of merchandise, from milk of magnesia to a $1,200 diamond bracelet to a radiator cap, and has sold more than $250 million worth of goods...
...bell foundry. Inside the ringing chamber, the eight ringers strapped a variety of containers to their legs, ranging from hot water bags to bicycle bottles (also known in the U.S. as "motormen's pals"). On shelves around them was a selection of food-chocolate, oranges, bananas, grapes, malted milk tablets and glucose pills (ringers may eat only so long as they feed themselves and keep on ringing). On a back rest behind Tony Jesson, assigned...
...UNDER MILK WOOD, by Dylan Thomas, was pronounced the richest theatrical event of the season by at least one Manhattan critic when the late Welsh poet rendered it as a barstool reading. In print, it emerged brilliantly as an earthy, mockingly tender account of a village's single day of living, loving and leaving, recorded with a devoted hi-fi ear for the sounds of speech, of the sea and of the soul...
Washington State's Agriculture Director Sverre Omdahl has successfully fought off all attempts for a state-control law because he believes "fixing [farm and retail] prices favors the inefficient producer and makes for a basically false and unhealthy milk market." What Agriculturist Omdahl advocates, along with other milk experts, is more use of the federal marketing law which protects the dairy farmer, but allows the efficient distributors to pass their savings on to housewives. There is little doubt that freer, more flexible milk markets would bring lower prices and increase milk-drinking. This would not only help dairy farmers...