Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II, Dow Chemical Co. was assigned a tough job. It had to make synthetic amino acids needed to speed the recovery of wounded soldiers. In doing the job, Dow experimented with chickens, noted that the birds grew bigger and faster when an amino acid called di-methionine was added to their diet. Dow thought di-methionine had commercial possibilities, but there was one hitch: it cost $11 a lb. Dow spent $200,000 on research, another $1,000,000 on a plant in Pittsburg, Calif, with a capacity of 2,000 Ibs. of di-methionine...
...waved the light at meetings of the Business Advisory Council, during a four-month, 15,900-mile tour of businessmen's luncheons, before such groups as the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Iron and Steel Institute. Over hundreds of fruit cocktails and plates of chicken a la king, his metallic, Ohio-bred voice had proclaimed: "I am a believer in private enterprise . . . Profit is the ignition system of our economic engine . . . Businessmen know more about their own business than Government officials." The Administration had faith in "our American system," and in capitalism's strength and good...
...cannon, and persuaded him to yield the trophy in exchange for a signed receipt. Detouring en route so the countryside might see, Il Corsaro trundled the cannon home in a handcart, and received a hero's welcome: a supper of lasagna, tortellini, young kid, pork and chicken, topped off by a demijohn of wine. Next day, he loaded the cannon with a double charge of powder, and fired it in the direction of Spilamberto. Unfortunately, the heavy charge split the breech...
...Pross, Darling . . . How too bad! I hope Tim isn't very sick [Mrs. Hiss's son Timmy had gotten chicken pox during the visit in Chappaqua] and it won't spread . . . Sic semper cinema! I wish I were there to help thee. [Hiss explained that since Mrs. Hiss is a Quaker he had written in the "simple" language.] Don't dream of coming down Saturday . . ." The letter closed with: "My love and commiseration to Sarah and Moll. Dearest love to thee. Thy Hilly...