Word: milks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through the ½in. openings, there was a little flash, a ping -and the dead fly fell into a metal trough at the bottom of the window. Each cow had its individual drinking fountain, which spouted water when nuzzled. Cows were cooled by electric fans, clipped by electric razors, milked by electric machines. The hay they ate was hoisted into the trough by electric motors. The milk they gave was immediately electrically cooled to 40°, electrically separated. "Everything is wired," cried Electrified Farmer Hughes, "except the hired men." But an electric siren called them whenever Farmer Hughes needed them...
...impracticable for hospitals to keep a row of wet nurses on call in an anteroom. Nevertheless mother's milk is often needed in a hurry for premature babies. Last week at the Mother's Milk Bureau of Manhattan's Children's Welfare Federation a group of medical men were shown a method of preserving human milk, an emulsion much less stable than cow's milk, for periods up to a year...
Developed by Dr. Paul W. Emerson, Harvard pediatrician, and Washington Platt of Borden Co., the method is freezing. The milk is drawn from the donors into sterile containers, poured into metal molds kept by dry-ice packing at -109°. In two minutes the milk is frozen solid. It is then sliced into wafers, packed in sterile bottles and stored at -15°. To prepare it for use nothing is necessary but thawing...
...board the Manhattan were nine tons of milk, 1,600 Ib. of peanut brittle. Athletes complained about their food the first day out, got permission to drink & smoke...
...story is often interrupted with discussions of the author's own trips over the routes Kino followed. Retracing Kino's steps has given Professor Bolton a feeling of familiarity with his hero. He writes of the great explorer informally as "not a man to cry over spilled milk," of his finding life no "bed of roses" as he struggled with the desert...