Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Under Communism, you give both cows to the Government, which gives you back some of the milk...
...Under Fascism you keep the cows but give the milk to the Government, which sells some of it back...
...made motion pictures of pigeons, humming birds and even houseflies in flight; of lamp bulbs breaking under hammer blows; of craters formed on a liquid surface by a falling drop of milk; of soap bubbles breaking; of falling cats twisting in mid-air to land on their feet...
Today the Heil Co. employs 1,800 people, makes oil burners, oil and milk tanks for trucks, hydraulic hoists, dump-truck bodies, water systems, road scrapers, snow plows "and everything." Ruddy, energetic, thick-accented Julius Heil is a millionaire, a life-member Elk, also a Moose, Shriner and patriarch of the Milwaukee Athletic Club, where he meets his wife and friends every Saturday evening for a Familienfest. He can boast that in all his business years his workers have never struck, and that during Depression he spent $600,000 of his company's reserves to keep them...
Slender, scholarly Gail Borden of Chicago's Social Register is rarely allowed to forget that the great-granduncle for whom he is named invented condensed milk. Not so well known is the fact that his great-grandfather John and two brothers started the first newspaper in the Republic of Texas, ran it until the Mexican General Santa Anna destroyed their press. Last week Gail Borden recalled this bit of family history when he was lifted out of his congenial niche as columnist and drama critic of Chicago's tabloid Daily Times and made managing editor to succeed...