Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...political soothsayers last week stepped up their efforts to look into the future. Some of their methods were doubtless better than those of the ancients who examined chicken entrails. In Washington, D.C., retired Barber Harry Rich announced that customers of the nation's barbershops favored Stevenson over Eisenhower 58,350 to 56,213. Kansas City, Mo.'s Staley Milling Co. found that 51.6% of its Midwestern customers preferred to buy their chicken feed in sacks bearing the G.O.P. elephant. Operating on a somewhat more scientific basis, Gallup pollsters found that the Democratic Party has gained ground during October...
...months after he became a man, John got his feet out from under his father's table. He went to work in a brother-in-law's general store, and soon afterward decided to go in business for himself. Sussex County is chicken country, and John thought Millsboro needed a chicken-feed supplier. He and a brother borrowed a few hundred dollars, part from their father, part from a bank, and started the Millsboro Feed Co. It was no bonanza, but it grew steadily. At 19, John married Elsie Steele, a farm girl. In the early years...
...taxes and had not been investigated for ten years. The Treasury protested that it couldn't collect from Costello because he didn't seem to have any property. Williams helpfully furnished the address of a Costello property: 79 Wall Street. How and where could a Millsboro chicken-feed dealer find a fact that was hidden from the Treasury sleuths? Williams found it in the Treasury files...
...Whispering Willie" was right as rain. He had never been to college, but he had kept the books of a chicken-feed company and his neighbors will swear that he never lost $3.50, let alone $350 million. When he got Agriculture's books, $366 million were missing. Subsequent accounting has reduced the discrepancy to a mere $81 million. Williams, in his small-town way, still considers that a lot of money...
...Williams loses, he plans a trip to Japan with his wife. After that, there is always the chicken-feed business, which is not exciting. But the books balance...