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Throughout Oregon last week, milk prices were tumbling. In Salem, housewives jammed into the Nameless Food Market for milk at 10? a quart; a store on Portland's east side sold milk for 15? a quart; grocery chains and supermarkets chopped their prices 2? a quart all along the line. The cause of the big drop was an overwhelming revolt of Oregon voters against the state's 21-year-old Milk Control Law, which set strict production and distribution quotas, minimum wholesale and retail prices. The man responsible: a modest farmer named Elmer Deetz, who runs...
Under Par. In Chattanooga, arrested on a charge of public drunkenness, William R. Coleman protested to police: "It takes a quart and a pint to make me drunk, and I've only had a quart...
...shifted the quart of milk he was carrying into his right hand, and was reaching into his left pocket when one of the two youths pinned his arms behind him. The taller of the two, who wore the glasses, punched...
...junior remembers lying face down on the sidewalk for a few minutes until another student helped him to his feet. He then went back for another quart of another quart of milk...
...Himalayan border pass of Jelep-la, nearly 15,000 feet above sea level, cold and sleeting. "A party of Tibetan muleteers was seated around an open fire. I was invited to join them and a wrinkled old hag was ordered to make tea. She poured a quart of dark, steaming tea into a wooden churn, added a quarter-pound of dirty, strong-smelling yak butter and a heavy dash of salt. After this was thoroughly churned, it was served in a wooden bowl. Oily globules were floating on top. Anywhere else it would have been a nauseating concoction, both...