Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ross Granville Harrison, biologist who began the artificial cultivation of living tissues, for which the Rockefeller Institute's Alexis Carrel is more famed; Rockefeller Institute's Francis Peyton Rous. whose discovery of a type of cancer (Rous's sarcoma) which can be transplanted from one chicken to another gave students of cancer a powerful new instrument of research...
...Representative Hamilton Fish went so far as to ask questions about two of his constituents. Did Squire Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park,* did Squire Henry Morgenthau of Fishkill, report their gentlemen-farming costs as business expenses in the "unethical" fashion in which other rich men treated racing stables, chicken farms, and yachts? Mrs. Roosevelt took notice of the question raised by Columnist David Lawrence- whether having checks for her radio performances turned over directly to charity was a form of tax avoidance (TIME, June 14). Without directly answering his question, she said: "On every penny of income I have...
Thus the U. S. entered the corn year last October with nearly 800,000,000 bu less than is usually needed to feed the country's hogs, cattle and poultry. (The bulk of the corn crop goes to market as pork beef lamb, duck, turkey, chicken, milk,' eggs' butter.*) To fill their feeding troughs farmers have had to use wheat, oats rye barley, pieced out with Argentine corn 'in the six months through last March corn imports from the Argentine amounted to 42,000,000 bu., more than three times as much as in the same...
...radio officer with the Byrd Expedition to the Antarctic in 1930; Pyotor Shirshoff, hydro-biologist who was aboard the Chelyuskin; and Eugene Feoderoff, who has been studying magnetic waves in the Arctic for three years. They will have an immense assortment of equipment: four tons or so of powdered chicken and similar foodstuffs, brandy, tea, caviar, a windmill to generate electricity for power, light, and cooking, skis, wolf-pelt sleeping bags, guns, sledges, a phonograph with 15 records, radio, chess set, cigarets (cigars for holidays), cameras, books, and a dog to warn of bears. Everything will be divided into five...
...Seattle, Wash., Mrs. William Morgan had a $100 diamond pecked from her ring while she was feeding her poultry. In hopes of recovering it, the Morgan family cooked and carefully chewed a chicken a day for 18 days. The diamond was finally found in a rooster's gizzard...