Word: milkmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...brightest comet of 1948 was visible this week, but only early birds and milkmen got a good look at it: the comet could be seen only for a short time before dawn. In the north temperate zone its rising tail appeared above the southeastern horizon just ahead of the sun. The best view was from a hilltop away from bright city lights...
Gandhi's son Ramdas poured sacred cow's milk into the urn of ashes, swirled it, then slowly poured the mixture into the water.* Gandhi's soul, according to Hindu belief, was at last free from its mortal prison. At the same moment, milkmen of nearby Allahabad, in a unique tribute, poured barrels of milk into the stream...
...fast-moving. It has nice tunes and even nicer dancing. But what really gives it the New York Look are Arnold Horwitt's extremely lively lyrics and brightly satirical skits. One funny ditty has all those who ruin the city's sleep-street diggers, taxi drivers, milkmen, newsboys-bawling...
...good wage for a good stenographer and a man in the higher-income brackets may earn $50 a week. Money, for that matter, does not mean very much; there is so little Australians can buy: eight ounces of butter and two ounces of tea a week, no canned food. Milkmen and bakers are restricted to zones. Grocers and butchers make no deliveries. There are not enough houses, apartments or even hotel rooms...
...night long, low desolate sounds were heard in Newark, N.J. The sounds brought a vague disquiet to the hearts of young people returning from the movies, to milkmen beginning their rounds. Here & there a suburban householder, coming home late, could have sworn that he heard under his very feet the melancholy, muffled...