Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stahmann is hatching goslings at the rate of 2,000 a day. When he reaches capacity production he expects to be quick-freezing 2,500 oven-ready geese daily, for a net profit of some $125,000a year-provided that housewives take to geese as they have to chicken...
Unlike Harry Truman, Ike likes business lunches. For his first in the White House he invited his campaign friends, Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton and Wisconsin's Governor Walter J. Kohler, in for fried chicken. They talked, among other things, about federal encroachment on state tax sources. Ike took them on a 45-minute tour of the White House, and was back at his desk by 2 o'clock. At 3:30 he watched benignly as seven members of his personal staff were sworn in. Two hours later, Ike walked over to a more elaborate ceremony...
...spending should be cut if necessary, to balance the budget). But Humphrey knows that Harry Truman's $78.6 billion budget, with its $9.9 billion deficit, is another factor which makes quick economic change impossible. "You can't set a hen in the morning," he says "and have chicken salad for lunch...
Five students from Eliot and Kirkland Houses were hospitalized in Stillman infirmary yesterday, the victims of food poisoning following Tuesday's meal of chicken a la king...
...into the sergeant's stomach at a foot's range. At Pudu, each meal consisted of a handful of pasty rice sometimes crawling with weevils. Whenever he could get them, Author Braddon ate cats, dogs, snakes, grubs, fungus and leaves. He notes that "snake tastes like gritty chicken mixed with fish; dog tastes like rather coarse beef; cat like rabbit, only better." The camp had its rare saints, and one was the Anglican padre, Noel Duckworth. Putting on a winning smile, he would call to some brutish guard: "Come here, you charming little lump of garbage...