Word: breeding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...leaders emerged: Charles Vantress, 46, with headquarters at Duluth, Ga., who raises about 3,000,000 roosters a year; and Henry Saglio, 47, who raises 15 million hens at Arbor Acres, his farm near Glastonbury, Conn. They sell the chickens to the hatchery men, who use them to breed the chicks, which in turn are sold to the broiler men to raise for the market. Of the nearly 2 billion chickens that are turned out for eating every year, Vantress' roosters sire 75%; Saglio's hens mother about 50% of the total...
...only do the sheep seem to be happier but Purdue can regulate the amount of light they get. Normally, sheep breed only once a year, when the autumn days begin to shorten. By changing the lighting indoors, Purdue can make sheep think it is autumn any time of the year, get two or more lamb crops, schedule spring lamb around the calendar...
Mysterious Trio. The man who is destined to win the Grail through his design for a festival pavilion is of a different, tougher breed. Marko Zuckerman's eyes speak, "Mongol-wise," of historic rapacity and plunder. His past is a mystery; all that is known of him is that he fled Hungary after World War II, showed up briefly in Paris with a big wad of money, then settled in Britain to amass more...
...pine-backed Cumberland Mountains walling off Kentucky's Harlan County from the rest of the world breed into the Harlan-born a primitive defiance. In years past, Harlan moonshiners disdained to dodge revenuers; safe on impenetrable hilltops, they patted rifles and taunted federal agents with doggerel. Harlan justice was rudimentary; seldom was a killer hanged, but often one murder was avenged with another. And when the United Mine Workers set out 30 years ago to organize Harlan's prosperous coal mines, pitched battles between "Bloody Harlan's" miners and company police brought out the National Guard...
...start in the railroads' battle for relief from overregulation and "discriminatory" taxes. He has asked for the creation of a Secretary of Transportation, suggested Government purchase of new rolling stock that would be rented to the roads. He believes that the long-haul rail passenger is a vanishing breed (Pennsy's 1958 passenger deficit: $44 million) and that the only way to save commuter service is to have communities pay the losses. The Pennsy and Philadelphia are now trying such an experiment. Many western railroadmen disagree with Symes's plan for subsidy and equipment purchase, but admit...