Word: quarts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milk prices keep going up, U.S. housewives are beginning to rebel against these restrictive state controls. In Oregon, voters repealed the state law setting arbitrary prices at the doorstep and grocery counter, thereby sent prices down 2? a quart. Yet farmers are still collecting as much, or almost as much (10.9 to 10.2? a quart) as before, and consumption is headed up. In Florida, after voters failed to abolish their milk-control board, they brought pressure on the legislature for more consumer representatives on the board. In California, Safeway Stores, which preach firm prices for farmers and free competition among...
Milk controls were born during the Depression, when farmers were forced to sell milk for as little as 1? a quart. In all, 26 states passed laws to protect farmers and bottlers. Some later junked the laws, but 16 states still maintain strict controls. In addition, federal controls can be applied if a majority of the milk producers in an area petition for them. As a result, three of every four U.S. citizens drink price-controlled milk...
...patchwork of politics and protection for local milk producers. Alabama, for example, prohibits distributors from increasing out-of-state milk purchases except during a severe shortage, fixes the grocery price of milk 1?higher than the home-delivered price, even though it usually costs nearly 3? a quart less to sell through a grocery. Thus milk is 26? a quart in Birmingham, but in Chattanooga, a freely competitive market about four hours away by truck, milk is only 16? a quart. Wisconsin, because of highly efficient mass production and distribution methods, claims it could deliver fresh milk in Manhattan...
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...