Word: quart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beer drinkers who have always argued that their favorite beverage is a "food" and full of health-giving nutrients found academically respectable confirmation in a book by German Physiologist Wilhelm Stepp. A quart of beer from his area, said Dr. Stepp, contains at least a man's daily requirements of several B vitamins, plus phosphorus and amino acids. Dr. Stepp practices in Munich...
Price: one quart...
University of Illinois Agricultural Economist R. W. Bartlett surveyed milk-pricing in 50 U.S. cities last year, found that prices were invariably higher where state controls existed. In 17 cities with free-milk markets, grocery stores charged an average of 20. 1? quart, 3.1? less than the average home-delivered price. In 18 state-controlled markets, the grocery price averaged 23.6? a quart, only 2? less than the home-delivered price. Says Economist Bartlett: "Modified federal regulation is absolutely essential to [prevent] chaos in milk markets. [But] state control of consumer prices constitutes a legalized monopoly which is definitely against...
...health's sake, U.S. families are forced to buy milk, whatever the price. But consumers have demonstrated that they buy more milk when the price goes down. For example, when the price dropped as much as 3? a quart in Kansas City, Mo. last year, sales of milk promptly rose...
...frozen orange juice. A new process developed by Golden Gift, Inc., De Land, Fla., bombards the fresh juice with ultraviolet rays to halt bacteria and enzyme growth without adding preservatives, keeps orange juice fresh, with vitamin C content unchanged, up to two weeks in household refrigerators. Price: 35? a quart...