Word: brood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...loss of $50,000, the Columbia Broadcasting System last week shoved Information Please off the air to broadcast an unsponsored program. It was a "documentary" on U.S. juvenile crime called The Eagle's Brood-the fruit of one of U.S. radio's most promising seedlings: the CBS Documentary Unit...
...racehorse owner, he was not through with horses. On a 504-acre ranch at the edge of the Mojave Desert, he still has a splendiferous breeding farm, with 15 different kinds of grass, a resident veterinarian, and everything but gold-handled pitchforks. There he keeps 74 of the finest brood mares in the land, whose offspring he will raise and sell each season as yearlings. Breeding, says L.B. now, is the side of the horse industry that is really sporting...
Speaker Joe Martin thought things were shaping up nicely. He had just seen his brood of House Republicans drop their squabbles, and obediently line up to be counted for a rock-solid party vote. The issue was the constitutional amendment to limit a President to two terms. Not a Republican wavered as Democratic whip John McCormack wailed: "It will make the Constitution rigid. It ties the hands of future generations." Of the 238 Republicans present, 238 voted right. With 47 Democrats joining them, the vote was 15 more than needed for a two-thirds majority. Joe was pleased...
lowans knew that he would meet legislative puzzlers in the same head-on fashion. They also know that, come early April, he will head back to Cass County to do the job he loves best-help his fat brood sows farrow another crop of piglets...
...first big floating fish cannery owned by the U.S. Government. It needed all this un-nautical equipment to process daily 700 cases of canned crab and 150 tons of filleted and frozen fish, store 6,100 tons all told. Next month the Pacific Explorer will pick up her brood of four trawlers, sail for a winter cruise in the South Pacific, then next spring head for the Bering...