Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week a whole new flock of federal employees is being hatched to take on a new U.S. duty: checking chickens. With the full-feathered approval of all the big birds in the Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration and the chicken business, Congress passed and the President signed a new law that gives the Federal Government instead of private industry the responsibility for checking the purity of poultry at processing plants. In the past, 550 Department of Agriculture inspectors have checked poultry only if processors asked and paid for the service, an operation that cost the industry...
...Concerning your Aug. 5 story on Airman Donald Wheeler: The armed forces are chicken; they daren't enforce orders. But should they try, get a pressagent to whip up a frenzied campaign to save you from discipline. Carry your case to the public through press, radio, and courier where necessary. You'll win if you whine and weep. My nomination for our next "National Hero": Airman Donald Wheeler...
...club. Her game, which had been an exercise in sheer power, began to show signs of sophistication. Now all her life was focused on tennis. She quit school and went to work. She was a counter girl in a Chock Full o' Nuts shop in lower Manhattan, a chicken cleaner on Long Island ("I used to have to take out the guts and everything, but I still like chicken"), an elevator operator in the midtown Dixie Hotel, a packer in a button factory, a mechanic in a machine shop ("It was puttin' screws in somethin...
...night a week after the election, as John Diefenbaker and Olive sat down to chicken sandwiches and ice cream in Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel, a telephone call came from Government House. While Olive wept softly with excitement, John was informed that on the following day Governor General Massey would ask him to form a new government of Canada...
With a personal fortune of at least $20 million in Snia Viscosa stock and other assets, Textileman Marinotti dreams of forsaking his sideline for his main interest. "Art," he says, "is the only explanation for life." He has visions of a retirement spent painting, writing poetry, cooking (favorite dish: chicken à la Strogoff) and collecting the great art of the past. But Artist Marinotti is too much of a businessman for that...