Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shock livestock without injury. A survey Idaho took two years ago showed that the State's farmers are turning more & more to electric fences, are finding new uses for them. Among them: 1) to stop hogs from rooting under woven-wire fences; 2) to prevent animals from raiding chicken houses at night; 3) to keep cows in adjoining pastures from nosing each other, thus preventing the spread of Bang's disease...
Forgotten Men. This spring Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. operators began to report they were unable to buy vegetables for their staffs. Other meats not available, chicken reached price levels reminiscent of early oil-rush days. Eggs were soon unobtainable. No Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. employe suffers unduly from this lack of foodstuffs, for the rich concern, having profited from cash sales of oil to warring Italy three years ago, can import vast quantities of canned foods...
Last week Detroit honored Dr. Naismith, now 76, with a banquet at which the original 1893 players, who 32 years ago organized into teams representing Adams "Y" and the Detroit Athletic Club, stuffed themselves with chicken. Afterwards the two teams, refereed by Inventor Naismith, played basketball as it was when baskets were peach baskets. Shoving and tackling under the original catch-as-catch-can rules, the hearty players (the oldest was 61, the youngest 53) battled for all they were worth. When the game was over the score was 2-to-2. Unanimously the players decided to postpone the overtime...
Biggest thrill to the Juan Tomas children, however, was not Albuquerque's civilization but the wonders of nature. They insisted on seeing the zoo twice, were most awed by the monkeys and lions. Said a sparkling-eyed 5-year-old, looking at the ostrich: "Oh, what a big chicken...
...Amarillo, Tex., Mrs. Roosevelt received the "world's biggest bouquet"-a 2,500-pound bunch of roses, bound with chicken wire and swung on a derrick- at a celebration of Mother-in-Law Day which involved a parade with a float carrying 591 mothers-in-law, and 50,000 spectators. Said Mrs. Roosevelt: "I feel I shall think more about mothers-in-law after this...