Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some light on the failure with chickens was cast by Dr. William Ewart Gye, director of Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, who found that even in the blood of chickens with growing cancers there may be antibodies in amounts detectable by chemical means. "A hen may carry a tumor," he wrote, "and have at the same time more than enough of the immune body in its circulating fluids to neutralize the whole of the virus in its tumor, and the tumor nevertheless continues to grow." The reason appeared to be that the cancer virus takes refuge inside...
...suit has yet to come to trial. Meanwhile, Mayor Wilson got the city council to notify U. G. I. that it would get no new lease on Jan. 1, 1938. When U. G. I. went to work conciliating individual city councilors with hearty lunches of fried oysters and chicken salad, the mayor shouted over the radio that U. G. I. was "pumping air into the gas supply...
...start a legal battle against the Board which he may carry to the Supreme Court if necessary. The company announced at week's end that it would retain able Lawyer Frederick Wood of Manhattan, who contributed to the downfall of NRA as defense counsel in the Schechter ("sick chicken'') case...
...look like a banquet hall one day last week. Gay flags hung from the walls, a long table sported baskets of flowers and an icy cake decorated with sugar baseball bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting. The old fellow was Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), manager, treasurer, president and co-owner of the Philadelphia Athletics...
...seven-pound sea bass, five soft-boiled eggs, a half-loaf of graham bread, a half-dozen tomatoes, and drank a cup of tea. For lunch he had a small steak, two slices of stale bread, and a bottle of Bass' ale. For dinner he ate three chickens with rice, Creole style, and another half-loaf of graham bread dunked in chicken broth...