milk stamps

Spanish translation: cupones para leche

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English term or phrase:milk stamps
Spanish translation:cupones para leche

17:46 Apr 5, 2014
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English term or phrase: milk stamps
Leyendo un artículo sobre la campaña por la liberación de la activista Angela Davis,
me he encontrado con lo siguiente:
All school children were ordered to collect milk stamps, draw sunflowers and assemble old newspapers.
¿Qué son milk stamps?, simplemente sellos o los códigos de barras de los cartones de leche?
le vería más sentido a lo primero ya que muchas escuelas enviaban cartas de apoyo al presidente de USA, de ahí el que se hiciera una recogida de sellos, pero por que milk? ¿Qué relación tiene?
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cutechameleo (X)
Spain
cupones para leche
Explanation:
Hola, cutechameleon. Yo lo interpreto más por el lado de los food stamps, que son cupones que se canjean por comida y suponen un subsidio de la comida a los que menos tienen. Entiendo que en este caso son cupones canjeables por leche. ¡Espero que te sirva!
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Veronica Sardon
Argentina
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4 +6cupones para leche
Veronica Sardon
5cupones (del gobierno) para la compra/adquisición de leche
Phoenix III


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milk stamps = simplemente sellos?
cupones para leche


Explanation:
Hola, cutechameleon. Yo lo interpreto más por el lado de los food stamps, que son cupones que se canjean por comida y suponen un subsidio de la comida a los que menos tienen. Entiendo que en este caso son cupones canjeables por leche. ¡Espero que te sirva!

Veronica Sardon
Argentina
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agree  Charles Davis: Así es: Milchmarken, cupones para leche, un elemento del sistema de racionamiento de la antigua RDA.
40 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles!

agree  Victoria Frazier
54 mins
  -> Thanks!

agree  Pablo Cruz: Es cupones pero no tiene que ver necesariamente con la DDR, en el enlace siguiente está hablando de Australia en la 2ª guerra mundial: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/40944563
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Pablo.

agree  Patricia Patho: ¡Genial la fuente, Pablo! Pero al menos, ahí también aparece entre comillas.
1 hr
  -> Gracias, Patricia! Se armó un buen debate, interesante!

agree  EirTranslations
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  -> Gracias!

agree  JohnMcDove
1 day 1 hr
  -> Thanks, John!
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1 day 7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
cupones (del gobierno) para la compra/adquisición de leche


Explanation:
We may know the meaning but not all readers know... that being said, I prefer to specify.
Milk stamps are ("food stamps" in USA) or were, coupons with which you could buy milk. Sometimes, there's a need to walk the extra mile and explain things a bit so the reader doesn't stay in limbo.

Phoenix III
United States
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