Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make fun of us because we try to step up production of eggs per hen or milk per cow? We have to, unless we want to make debts-and is it not more honorable for a poor man to work hard and to be saving, rather than borrow from his neighbors...
...peace talks were shifted to Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel. While reporters pitched pennies at a line in the corridor (chief winner: A. F. of L.'s Press Agent Phil Pearl) the negotiators in Room 105 wrangled for five hours., consumed $11.90 worth of sandwiches, coffee and milk. The results were inconclusive but the conferences went on. Said William Green in Washington: "... I solemnly declare we will never liquidate the American Federation of Labor for anybody...
...recruits. Having lowered the physical requirements, Army officials last week reported the successful results of an experiment to feed some 1,900 skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed...
Airmail service is a big-city luxury. U. S. airlines, hungrily eying the enormous potential postal business for them in small towns, have had to pass it up, since collecting mail on a "milk-route" would be slow because of many stops, uneconomic because of the high cost of landing fields...
...Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts for 24 years, FTC has had more experience coping with monopoly than any other Government agency, seldom lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase...