Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...freeze butter prices, which jumped upward and tried to drag milk prices along. But for the distributors, the Government provided subsidies of $1 million a month -temporary hush money until OPA and the Agriculture Department could decide on the least evil of three: 1) raise milk a cent a quart; 2) lower the average price to farmers; 3) continue paying subsidies...
Last week, for instance, the OPA slashed the price of women's full-fashioned nylon stockings from around $2.95 to $1.65. A Manhattan department store was advertising rye whiskey at $2.29 per quart, and Scotch at $3.29 per fifth. Gasoline, which the citizen ought to conserve, is still offered to him at between 17? and 23? per gallon-and the Government is paying a transportation subsidy to the oil companies to keep the price down in the East...
...dozen pop-bottling works have been far behind in supplying the demand. Breweries hardly find a few minutes to age beer. Bars open at 10 a.m., close at 5 p.m. Packaged liquor is rationed at one quart per person a week...
Just wrap up a quart...
...keep restless stomachs constantly occupied, Dr. Winkelstein rigs up a quart-sized can high over each patient's bed, fills it with lukewarm milk to which a level teaspoon of soda has been added. One end of a long, latex tube attached to the bottom of the can is swallowed by the patient. The tube, which is very soft, and scarcely larger than macaroni, is easy to swallow, does not keep the patient from sleeping, can even be used in the day time while he sits in a chair. The milk drips into his stomach constantly, its flow controlled...