Many a New York City housewife returned from her Fourth of July weekend to find that her grocer was rationing milk. There was no lack of milk for thirsty children; homes, hospitals, relief agencies got their milk deliveries as usual. But panicky mothers, fearing the milk supply would be shut off, tried to stock up. The 40% of New York's milk that goes into ice cream, butter, cheese and evaporated milk was cut to a trickle. The Dairy Farmers' Union had called a strike, choked off some 3,000,000 of New York City's normal...
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