Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...draws $55 a month for disability; the kids are good for $156 more in AFDC; a vegetable garden and a chicken coop housing about 30 Leghorns take care of the rest. There is a TV set in the shack, and a large fray-feathered fowl refrigerator stored with home-bottled pickles, beets, scallions and ? two weeks of the month ? spareribs or ham burger. Eb wryly remarks that there are advantages to blindness: it gives him an honorable excuse for being on the dole. Since the hardwoods were lumbered off and the deep coal mines virtually gutted...
...children in a rusty 8-by-23-ft. trailer on the swampy shore of Lake Winnecook, just off Interstate 95 near Unity, Me. During the summer he runs a lakeside parking lot for tourists; during the fall he digs potatoes for $1.40 an hour; between times he drives a chicken truck when he can. In 1967 he earned about $3,000, but after breaking a leg while ditchdigging last fall he missed much of the lucrative potato-digging season. He did not receive workmen's compensation...
Meanwhile, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, sponsor of the campaign, spoke at a $100-a-plate luncheon (chicken) in his honor at Northeastern University. After the luncheon there was a rally to kick off the Northeastern Caravan of the campaign at the Boston Common...
...herds of autos crowd the cows off his pasture. The boys at the firehouse move the truck out so that people who find it too cold in their cars or tents can spend the night on the firehouse floor. The ladies of the P.T.A. serve home-cooked country ham, chicken and cake at the school. And if the guests get to roughhousing, hooting, doing clog dances and even drinking a little-why, nobody much minds. "They can run around in circles and climb a tree if they want to," says Chief Deputy Sheriff R. L. Warren...
...them accordingly. Today, even table scraps are not good enough-which means that the nation's 3,000 dog-and cat-food makers and marketers contemplate 1968 sales of over $900 million, up $300 million since 1965. At that price, the doggy dish runs all the way from chicken croquettes to chunks of pure beef...