Word: quart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ball after extra-point kicks, and a player once complained that Halas provided only two bars of shower soap for 36 men. To a Bear player who pleaded for an advance "to buy my kid milk," Halas replied: "What's his address? I'll send him a quart...
...Long Island story begins in Arkansas where a crew chief, himself a Negro, recruits his workers ("All you've got to do is get on my bus"). He barely mentions the $30 fare that begins the treadmill of debt. Sometimes, in picking strawberries at 10? per quart, the migrants earn only $2 for their day's work. But the crew chief deducts $1.25 a day for transportation to the fields. He also overcharges them for their filthy accommodations, for their food (a concession controlled by his wife), and the 51?-a-pint payday wine that he sells...
...Quart for a Gallon. S.U.N.Y., of course, is not alone in having unsolved troubles. All across the U.S., the massive expansion of state systems has created massive problems. The situation, says U.C.L.A. Chancellor Franklin Murphy, is "like a man trying to fill a gallon jug with not much more than a quart of water." Armies of undergraduates are demanding more teaching attention; at the same time, governments are pleading for more research, which requires new emphasis on graduate studies, and the cities are begging for ideas to help check their spiraling decay...
...considerable amount of gas passes through a normal, healthy digestive system. Dr. Ivan E. Danhof, of the Uni versity of Texas' Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, told the American Medical Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda...
...basic issue, of course, was money. While the average price of 8? to 10? a quart that dairymen receive for their milk has not changed for two decades, their production costs have risen markedly. This has forced thousands of farmers out of business. In Wisconsin, the nation's biggest dairy producing state, dairy farms shut down at the rate of 90 to 100 a week last year. The N.F.O. reasoned that if it could hold enough milk off the market, it could break the cycle and raise farmers' prices by 2? a quart...