Word: dodo
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...Dodo, being the sober creature that he was and not caring much for turkey anyway, was less interested in the news: "Dear girl, if the Department of Agriculture at Washington wants to experiment with turkeys to get a smaller species -- and even if it will look like a duck, that should not disturb us too much. It will still be turkey...
...continued the Dodo, standing on one leg and the other against his forehead, "the officials have discovered that the average family's cooking oven and pans will not accomodate a turkey weighing more than eighteen pounds. The new one will fit in every home; and weigh about fifteen pounds. It's science, and it's politics...
...should any such thing happen? Labor has called NRA a snare and delusion. General Johnson called it a dead dodo. As a Recovery measure New Dealers have privately admitted it is a flop. Untold manufacturers kick about its theory and its practice. The case of Fred Perkins was a shrill public indictment. The success of its enforcement is compared to that of Prohibition. Certain Senators seize every opportunity to denounce it as an oppressor of honest business. Its advocates are few and its critics many. How can its renewal be a certainty or even a possibility...
After the mother whale was caught the baby swam unhappily along the shore until it, too, was killed. Its bones were recovered without difficulty, later traded to the British Museum for the skeleton of a dodo...
...downtown Manhattan department store, newshawks rushed in to interview an author who was autographing his books, Williams of West Point, Williams on Service. Instead of asking him literary questions, they asked his opinion of NRA. Said General Hugh S. Johnson, author of juveniles: "It is dead as a dodo ?and that is extinct." Then, by way of literary gossip, he dropped the fact that the day before he had had a three-hour talk with President Roosevelt. What that talk concerned the President revealed two days later when he announced: "The time has come to take the profit...