Word: breeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does every year about this time, bronzed, husky Herbert A. Nieman was grading pelts on his silver fox farm near Hermansville, Mich. But this year pelting was different. Nieman, the biggest U.S. breeder of silver foxes, was almost ready to pelt out of the fox-breeding business for the next few years. Last spring he killed off 15,000 pups; this-season his kill (by electrocution) will be 30,000 more foxes. He will keep a small breeding stock of only 1,250 pairs for next year...
...lined up three candidates. On the first ballot, Jenner ran far ahead. On the second, Governor Gates ordered the other three to pool their strength. Jenner wound up well behind Nominee Hobart Creighton, hefty Speaker of Indiana's House, famed among farmers as the biggest chicken & egg breeder in the U.S. (TIME...
...hear from me. Might go as high as 12 or 13Gs." Then a man from Lexington, Ky. burned up the long distance wires, begging Dorothy to hold off until he could get up to Valley Stream. He telegraphed a $100 down payment. Dorothy described him as a horse breeder named Arthur Howard, said he was a boyish 42 and almost six feet tall. "He's got oodles of do-re-mi,'' she added softly...
Married. Paul Mellon, 40, onetime banker, horse breeder who races a stable of steeplechasers, son of Aluminum Tycoon Andrew W. Mellon; and Rachel ("Bunny") Lambert Lloyd, 37, daughter of drug (Listerine) and razor-blade (Gillette) Tycoon Gerard Barnes Lambert; each for the second time; in Manhattan...
...there is a corpus delicti-"often used erroneously to designate the physical body of the victim of a murder" (Webster). Actually, corpus delicti is the "substantial and fundamental facts necessary to the commission of a crime." Britain's last murder-without-body was in 1934, when a poultry breeder, Thomas Joseph Davidson, drowned his eight-year-old son. He was sent to prison for life...