Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week ahead of time, 12,000 Republicans in the nation's capital jammed Uline Arena to buy a boxed chicken supper, gaze at drum majorettes and applaud an aged American Indian in spectacles and war bonnet. With partisan joy they listened to a series of grim, lowbrow political messages reeking with campaign clich...
...Department of Agriculture once advised chicken raisers to dose broiler pullets with the synthetic hormone stilbestrol. The drug stops the growth of ovaries in pullets, turns them into the fat, tender female equivalent of capons, which fetch a premium price...
...variegated population of London piling into busses, trains, and other means of escape; we see a little boy who has forgotten to "go" before leaving the house; we see a kindly bus driver following regulations sternly and refusing to allow another little boy to take his pet chicken along with him; we see distraught mothers and aged grandmothers...
...after he became Secretary of Defense, but he could not see any solution if U.S. troops were to continue to be the world's best supplied, best cared for and best fed. Said Marshall reminiscently: "Our services are too luxurious. I was raised on a 16? ration, no chicken, no turkey and no butter. If there was any, by the time I got it, it was melted...
Illinois. Just when Chicago was congratulating itself on an alltime record of 13 days without a single reported homicide,* police found the body of one Joseph Barren, alias "Chicken Joe," in a backyard with a knife in his heart...