milkshed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of milkshed
Example Sentences
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The plea that only local milkshed milk is sanitary had become an outright racket, and the racketeers are afraid that after the war it will be hard to get the old milkshed barriers raised again.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Columnist Hugh Johnson roared: Last week New York City's milkshed, largest in the world, was at war�the bitterest, toughest Blitzkrieg it has ever known.
From Time Magazine Archive
This month, through the Federal-State Milk Marketing Agency which controls producer prices in the milkshed, Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard upped the price of fluid milk* to $2.65 per cwt.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Dairymen's League Co-operative Association, an organization representing some 27,000 of the 44,000 milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like Alexandria and Falls Church, the county's other major shipping centers, Herndon served what was known as a "milkshed" area, that is a community whose milk could be transported to that locality without spoiling.
From Frying Pan Farm by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
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