Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wait a second--don't fall--you'll crush my egg sandwich Mountaineers have a peculiar sense of humor...
Last week critics were arguing bitterly about his lounging plaster female with a breast like a precariously balanced baseball. Some liked it almost as well as Englishman Henry Moore's pachydermic pinheads or German Joan Arp's egg-smooth abstractions. Others contended that it could not be compared with the high standards in postwar sculpture set in more conventional works by Milanese Artists Marino Marini (TIME, May 30) and Giacomo Manzu (TIME, July 18), who have been winning praise in both Britain and the U.S. but for lack of new work to exhibit were not represented...
...when Wallace finally got his hybrid, it started laying eggs earlier in the season than other breeds, laid larger eggs and more of them. In test runs sponsored by Iowa State College, four flocks of his hybrids netted an egg profit of $3.88 a hen a year, while other leading breeds brought in only 70? to $1.44 a bird. Average production of the hybrids was 247 eggs per chicken while none of the others broke through the 200 mark...
...Egg Trouble. Although the U.S. is now glutted with eggs, thanks to the farm support program (TIME, Oct. 3), widespread use of hybrids like the Hy-Lines might solve that problem eventually. Hybrids could enable farmers to produce so cheaply, says Wallace, that they could accept much lower prices and still make a profit. Not all customers who have bought hybrids like them. Some say that the birds are too jittery. Furthermore, hybrid eggs might not be preferred in every market: a light cream color, the eggs are too dark for New Yorkers who like white eggs and too light...
Unlike the egg and potato surpluses, which have been problems for years, the flaxseed surplus is a new monster of the department's own making. U.S. paint manufacturers, big users of linseed oil (crushed from flaxseed), were being gouged by Argentine suppliers at the end of World War II. So the department encouraged domestic production by pegging the price of flaxseed at $6 a bushel. The encouraged farmers raised so much flaxseed that the market collapsed. CCC loss to date on flaxseed and linseed oil: $73 million...