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Item Description

Title

Dairy Products: Correspondence, 1955

Creator

Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.

Contributors

Towne, Elmer

Vermont Milk Control Board

Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961

Gore, Albert, 1907-1998

Bailey, Consuelo Northrop, 1899-1976

Stephens, Thomas E. (Thomas Edwin), 1903-1988

United States. Dept. of Agriculture

Anderson, Don S.

Green, Theodore Francis, 1867-1966

Published: November 14, 2006,  University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Special Collections

Description

Topics include price subsidies for milk and their relation to production and consumption; President Eisenhower and the Democratic Congress; controversy over grain elevators in Pakistan; views of the late Senator Robert Taft (OH) on farms; price for milk in the Boston market; Brucellosis program funding; failure to include northern New Jersey in a milk order; insertion of comments by Elmer Towne into the Congressional Record by Senator Aiken; effort to equalize milk prices nationally; money spent in Vermont and New England for milk promotion through the Vermont Dairy Council , the American Dairy Association of Vermont, Milk for Health, Inc., and the New England Dairy and Food Council; proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; New York milk price; Aiken's request that milk vending machines be placed in the Senate Office Building; hearings about proposed amendments to milk marketing orders; bulk milk tanks; request for President Eisenhower to visit the Vermont Dairy Festival in 1956; local ordinances and state laws on milk; New York-New Jersey milk regulation; Vermont hearing on "Rules and Regulations Relating to the Manufacture and Sale of Ice Cream and Other Frozen Dairy Products"; Aiken press release urging Republican women to drink milk; current rate of purchases of dairy products; handling of milk in the Brattleboro area.

Source Document

Aiken Papers, Crate 8, Carton 1, Folder 17

Date of Source Document

1955

Digital Format: image/tiff : Text/Grayscale: 8 bits; 300 ppi, Microtek ScanMaker 9800XL.

Subjects/People

• Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984
• Aiken, George D. (George David), 1892-1984.
• Anderson, Don S.
• Bailey, Consuelo Northrop, 1899-1976
• Bridges, Styles, 1898-1961
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969
• Gore, Albert, 1907-1998
• Green, Theodore Francis, 1867-1966
• Milk -- Prices -- United States
• Milk consumption
• Milk trade -- United States
• New England Dairy and Food Council
• Stephens, Thomas E. (Thomas Edwin), 1903-1988
• Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953
• Towne, Elmer
• United States. Dept. of Agriculture
• Vermont Milk Control Board

Subjects/Topics

• Brucellosis in cattle
• Dairy laws -- New England
• Dairy processing -- Vermont -- Brattleboro
• Dairy products -- Cooperative marketing
• Dairying -- Economic aspects
• Foreign trade regulation -- United States
• Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Law and legislation
• Milk -- Prices -- New England
• Milk trade -- New England
• Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England
• Milk yield -- Law and legislation -- New England
• Trade regulation -- United States

Time period: 1955

Format: text

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