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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Be like Ike: support school feeding at home and abroad

When we remember the Eisenhower years, we might think of the frightening arms race with the Soviets and diplomatic efforts to prevent nuclear war. Those were years of stunning technological change in terms of armaments.

But this was also a time of positive change for many children in the country, in terms of a simple cup of milk. The Special School Milk Program of 1954 offered reduced price milk for school children, and nine million children were the beneficiaries.

read the full article at Examiner.com