Word: milkmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Milkmen & Candelabra. The U.P. has almost no physical assets. The giant's muscles are the 4,000 U.P. staffers who keep its hundreds of news printers thumping out 60 words a minute, in 45 languages, around the clock. Their copy must be crisply written to escape the editor's spike. It must be simple enough to be understood by "the milkman in Omaha,"* as an old dictum from New York once put it; at the same time, as former U.President Hugh Baillie once demanded, it is supposed to "flame like a candelabra on a dark and muddy battlefield...
Continuous Performances. In Detroit, asking police for help, George Van Kula reported that an anonymous prankster had 1) directed to his address two coal trucks, four TV repairmen, two florists, six milkmen, a plumber, a veterinarian, two tow trucks, two exterminators, 2) advertised in the Detroit News that his apartment was for rent, cheap; 3) inserted a want ad stating that Van Kula needed a "dandy man, good wages...
...Louisville last week, old (76) Alben Barkley stood up before a milkmen's meeting and pointed out that Winston Churchill is now 79, that Cato studied Greek at 82 and that Oliver Wendell Holmes resigned from the U.S. Supreme Court at 91. Burbled Barkley: "I feel like a kid." In Illinois, U.S. Senator Paul Douglas was roaming the countryside being folksy with farmers, militant with miners, professorial with college groups and hearty with luncheon clubs. All across the U.S., the politicians, like bees in a hive warmed by the spring sun, were beginning to stir and buzz. The reason...
...blended price plan, which has ranked high at the Agriculture Department for several weeks, got a new boost last week when representatives of the National Milk Producers Federation called on President Eisenhower to adopt it. The milkmen were escorted by none other than Vermont's Senator George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. The blend plan, like each of the others, has its opponents. Among them: some big buttermen, who think that it might permanently undermine the butter price structure...
After that one-shot deal, the milkmen have a long-range program to take care of future dairy problems under what would amount to a Government-sanctioned monopoly. They would set up a stabilization board, appointed by the President, with $500 million borrowed from the Treasury. The board would set and support dairy prices, paying the load out of assessments on farmers; presumably, the consumer would ultimately foot the bill, through higher prices. The stabilization board could sell its stocks abroad (but not in the U.S.) at below-support prices. There would be no import restrictions, but in surplus years...