Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They left the municipal airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused...
Carrying one cold chicken, two gallons of tea and four tons of gasoline in a 700-horsepower Hawker-Horsley biplane, Lieutenants C. A. Carr and Lem M. S. Gillman hopped last week from Cranwell, England, bound for Karachi, India, 4,000 miles away. They missed the airdrome wall at the start by a few inches. Over Constantinople they were reported to be doing well. On leaving the Persian Gulf engine trouble developed. They were forced to descend into lukewarm waters, wrecking their Hawker-Horsley some 3,200 miles from home. Soon a ship rescued them, took them to Abadan, Persia...
...Greenwich, Conn., a newborn chicken scampered fluffily about 30 years ago, on the estate of James G. Wessels, prominent citizen. Last week this onetime chicken, now a potent Sarah among fowls, cackled loudly, clearly. In its nest Mr. Wessels discovered a newly laid egg. Skeptics asked: "Could a hen that was young in the 90's lay an egg in 1927?" Answered Mr. Wessels: "Here is the egg to prove...
...younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers...
...tidy machines wrap up the cakes of this cleanser, like a chicken pecking at snails- profits...