Word: quart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Homer. When established dairies last December raised milk prices 2? a quart, Kennedy held the price line, picked up as many as 1,000 new customers a day until the other dairies dropped prices back. As a result, in a year the Association has climbed to seventh among Detroit's 28 dairies, and grossed $1,250,000 in 1946 (estimated...
Kennedy still draws only $100-a-week salary. The milk drivers, who own their own trucks (jeeps proved too small), take care of their own overhead and get a commission of 5^ a quart. Some net $180 a week; the average: $100 a week...
...from 32.86? a pound to 31.45?). Amid the growing abundance of dairy products, wholesale butter fell as much as 7 ½? a pound in one day. In the New York area, the price of milk was reduced 44? a hundredweight by the Department of Agriculture, about a cent a quart, and pegged there to keep it from going lower...
Apple cider, commonly associated in New England environs with the first Pilgrim Harvest, was also in evidence about College rooms. One straitened but ingenious host placed a quart in his closet uncorked. "It'll be better next year, the natural reward for abstinence," said the Economics major...
...Store in the Square, Frank Purcell, disagreed with his colleagues on the prevailing undergraduate scotch propensity. "Harvard men will drink anything alcoholic," he remarked, hastily explaining that the turpentine on the floor would be used for the walls. He expected malt liquor to be in demand, and was stocking quart bottles of Pell's Light and Blatz' Heavy last Tuesday...