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...native (nonunion) labor could grow feed for the chicks and harvest the eggs, but trouble hatched early. An American appointed to head the project got $14,000 to buy hatching eggs from Rhode Island Reds. Beaverbrook's Daily Express blew its patriotic top, offered to fly 1,000 day-old chicks or good British hatching eggs to Gambia. While waiting for the local feed supply to be produced, the government authorized spending of more scarce dollars for American grain. British poultry farmers protested because their production is curtailed by government restrictions on purchase of overseas grain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Scrambled Eggs | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Cornell University announced last night that the 11-day-old strike of maintenance employees has been settled. The pact involves clarification of the school's employe relation policy. The University and the union have agreed to have an open shop without discrimination and to maintain "harmonious contact" in matters affecting employe relations and grievances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cornell Strike Settled Open Shop Continues | 12/7/1950 | See Source »

...another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first cousin of Princess Elizabeth, took their stations as godparents while the Archbishop of York christened Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise of Edinburgh, who looked her 67-day-old best in a satin and lace gown handed down by her great-great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Strenuous Life | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...copies of out-of-town dailies made up the major supply of newspapers for a city which normally buys 800,000 papers a day. Early every morning, long lines queued up outside the city's newsstands to scramble for them. Since harried news vendors favored only regular customers, a lively grey market soon started. One surprised traveler, alighting at the railroad station with a Sunday New York Times, was handed 50? for his day-old newspaper. Metropolitan sales of Pittsburgh's Negro weekly, the Courier, shot up from 23,000 to 41,000, while the demand for newsmagazines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: No News Is Bad News | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...mountain road in black limousines rode Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and five members of his day-old Cabinet. A guard of honor of ten U.S., ten British, ten French soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: HICOG with a Horn | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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