Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...began when the Ministry of Agriculture encouraged British chicken farmers to adopt the battery system, a U.S. method of making hens lay more eggs. Batteries are 2-foot-square cages, floored with wire netting and exactly big enough to house one plump hen (see cut). Once enclosed in a battery with the light burning 18 hours a day (to encourage overtime), a hen spends the rest of its life (about nine months) eating, sleeping and laying standard-size eggs. Battery hens average 190 eggs a year, their free-roaming barnyard rivals 30 to 40 less...
...just what modern education needs. This year, after months of planning, they pooled their slim savings, bundled their two children and furniture onto a truck, set out to transplant the Putney idea in the West. The place they picked was a log ranch house with a couple of chicken coops, located in Roaring Fork Valley, 30 miles northwest of Aspen...
Beautiful Chart. New York's Dorset Foods, Ltd., a canner of poultry and meats, last year introduced five low-calorie soups, recently added a line of "substance" low-calorie products, including beef stew, chicken fricassee and a chicken-vegetable dinner. Dietetic Food Co., Inc., which started producing foods for diabetics 26 years ago, now has a full low-calorie line, including candy, desserts, chewing gum and a new ice cream. Sales of high-protein foods, like meat, are up; protein-bread makers are also cashing in on the bonanza. Said an official of Ralston Purina, makers...
...true son of New England, Tobey became a chicken farmer in Temple, N. H. a few years after leaving the Roxbury (Mass.) Latin School in 1895. On winter mornings he sent his four children off to school with fresh-baked potatoes clenched in their hands to ward off frostbite. Summer afternoons Tobey invited his neighbors over for an outdoor hymn-sing, which he always led, pounding the old upright piano and rolling out the words in a stentorian baritone. In 1910 in Boston, after hearing Charles Evans Hughes denounce political corruption, Tobey was so impressed that he followed Hughes...
...transmitting tower put up on his Leesburg, Va. farm just behind the chicken coop, this week returned to the radio & television faithful the freckled face and barefoot voice of Arthur Godfrey, in the pink, but still on crutches after his celebrated Boston hip operation...