Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bodegas & Charms. In the Barrio (i.e., district), the Puerto Ricans have created their own city. The store signs are in Spanish. At the bodegas (grocery stores) they sell green coconuts, chick peas and mangoes. The carnecerias (butcher shops) sell Spanish sausage, salt pork fat, chicken feet (3 Ibs. for 25?) and salted pigs' tails...
...chicken was dead and the cat was stalking the other three, huddled together in the middle of the room, when Lessen summoned a janitor for assistance...
James has been backing up this philosophy for 50 years with such Hankins specialties as " Southern fried chicken, corn muffins, peanut-butter ice cream, and jumbo apple pies...
Last week he added 13 more restaurants to the trademarked henhouse, making a total nest of 245 restaurants all across the U.S. that pay him royalties of 2? on each order of chicken served. By last week some 335 million orders of chicken had been sold under his royalty setup. Osborne also sells or leases to his franchise customers everything from patented chicken fryers to water glasses bearing his trademark (a design showing a rooster standing in a clump of grass with a broken golf club...
...while he spent long weeks in the woods, hunting bear. As a husband he was no more successful than as a farmer. One day when his wife said, "Ben, you like to shoot so well, why don't you get your gun and shoot that chicken hawk?" he left the house and did not come back for more than a year. "That hawk kept flying," he explained...