Word: breds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quit his job as a Railway Express agent and in 1920 set up a chicken house on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Frank, an only child, grew up with the birds: "I dug cesspools, made coops and cleaned them out." By the mid 1950s, the Perdues' well-bred chickens were winning top prices at auctions, but Frank realized that there was money to be made processing and marketing the birds as well. Eight years ago, he rescued his chickens from the anonymity of commodity marketing by putting his name on them. In 1971 he went to Madison Avenue...
JASON MILLER'S That Championship Season was conceived of and written in the heat of the Nixon years, and the play reflects the peculiar bitter consciousness of that era. It's no accident that all the characters are ex-atheltes, bred on the same Vince Lombardi-type homilies that powered the Palace Guard...
...sponsor the peregrine program hope that the birds will adapt quickly to life in the refuge. The prospects seem promising. Two falcons released a few miles to the north near Barnegat Inlet last summer disappeared during the winter but returned to the Jersey shore this summer. Equally encouraging, birds bred in captivity have mated this year and begun raising families of their...
...While a sales rebound some day was inevitable-car purchase can be postponed, but not forever-the shape as well as the strength of the comeback has caught Detroit off guard. The main reason for the upswing seems to be that buyers are shedding their recession-bred fear of spending. Now that the inflation rate is dropping (see box) and "real" incomes are rising, Americans are reverting to an old habit. As Ford Executive Vice President William Bourke puts it, "They often buy 'as much car' as their budgets allow, and 1976 budgets allow a greater...
...bright sounds of spring this year, few are more reassuring to businessmen and election-minded politicians than the persistent jangle of the nation's cash registers. From Maine to Southern California, Americans seem to have shucked their recession-bred caution and set off on a buying binge. The spending spree is swelling sales of almost everything from cars and clothing to houses and appliances, and it has become the biggest single booster behind the rapidly recovering U.S. economy...