Word: chicken
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Diversion. In Harrah, Okla., R. A. Beal complained that chicken thieves used a handsome bitch to lure his watchdog off duty...
...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...
When he found that the slaughter of the chickens left feet, heads and entrails, Schnering brought in mink which thrive on chicken waste; he now has 400 breeding mink on his farm. One day Schnering decided to put the gushing springs on his farm to work. He built a ¼-mile-long trout hatchery, last year sold 60,000 trout to hotels and restaurants for an average...
Rationalizer. In Tucker, Ark., it took seven prison-farm waiters, instead of the usual two, to serve condemned wife-murderer Harvey Rorie the traditional last meal: fried chicken, fried catfish, mayonnaise, coconut cake, coconut pie, lemon pie, one half-gallon French fried potatoes, potato salad, one half-gallon vanilla ice cream, hot biscuits, vegetable salad, half-pound of butter, one gallon of lemonade, one half-gallon of milk, one half-gallon of strong black coffee, two packs of cigarettes, five cigars...
Baumann, who lives in Des Moines, is optimistic about the commercial value of his wingless fowl. "Wings on a chicken," he declares, "are obsolete. The airplane characteristics of the usual chicken are a nuisance." His wingless chickens do not have to be confined by high wire fences, because their ceiling is about two feet. They are nice and quiet too, and the roosters don't fight much. They "dress -out" beautifully, says Baumann, "with white meat where the wings are on other birds. These chickens are the nearest thing to a schmoo of anything alive...