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Random Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...
...avoid complications in childbirth, the doctors decided upon a Caesarean. Last week, with Dr. Nittis hovering nearby, a technician poured more than a quart of blood into Mrs. Donnelly's veins as two surgeons performed the operation. The patient, under spinal anesthesia, clutched a rosary and a religious medal. When she was told "It's a boy," she murmured "Thank you, dear God," and fell asleep...
...usually skips lunch. With great effort ("I go crazy"), he resists the spaghetti, ravioli and pizza he dearly loves, and the beer he loves scarcely less. In the old days, Lanza once polished off 40 pieces of fried chicken at a sitting, and washed them down with a quart of eggnog...
Graves and Stambaugh will license canners, dairymen, etc. to use their method (Med-O-Milk is the first). At current wholesale prices (31.1? a quart), canned milk is no threat to fresh milk in the U.S. But Graves & Stambaugh think there is a big market where fresh milk is expensive or unobtainable (e.g., Alaska, on shipboard, in mining camps...
...stay fresh as long as ten or eleven days. Other advantages to the consumer: concentrated milk takes up less space in the refrigerator, can be used straight as a cream substitute, and eventually may cost less than fresh whole milk. In most of the test areas, a one-third-quart container of concentrate (which makes a quart of milk) sells for about the same price as fresh milk. But when the customer buys a quart of concentrate at a store, he saves several cents a quart on the three quarts of milk it makes...