Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mayors were still flying when their aircraft stopped at the ramp at Tyndall. Mayor Healy, in fact, swayed so much as he egg-walked down the steps that an officer stood by to catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a motel 30 miles away, the two mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell...
...Sailormen have attempted to drive them out by burning old tires, scare them put by dropping flares on them and shooting off rifles, bazookas and mortars near them. When the gooneys stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away. Unerringly, the gooneys, thoughtfully marked with a shocking...
Much can be said of Fidel Castro's wild schemes, but no one can accuse him of lacking imagination. In the high name of the revolution last week Castro nationalized 1) Cuba's bat guano caves, 2) every chicken egg in Havana province and 3) Santa Claus, who has gradually become the symbol of Christmas through much of Latin America...
Havana's egg business became exclusive property of the National Institute of Agrarian Reform (INRA) because Castro is upset about overproduction and a drastic drop in prices. Farmers must sell their eggs at dictated prices to INRA, which will hold back part of the crop from market. Bat guano is an even more ambitious INRA undertaking, first sparked by Entrepreneur Bud Arvey (son of Chicago Democratic Bigwig Jake Arvey), who hit Cuba last spring with a plan to join the Castro government in a $500,000 partnership to scrape the guano deposits from caves in Pinar...
...over when U.S. farmers, homesteaders and adventurers (50,000 in 1920) hurried north to help open a new land. Last year, only 54 of those admitted were classed as laborers; the new U.S. immigrant is a stable, older man, usually with a family and a nest egg, who moves to Canada's densely populated areas (in order of 1958 rank: Ontario, Quebec, British Columbia, Alberta) to provide the goods and services needed in a growing nation. Many, with capital or experience, are placed in the department's highest classification as "owners, managers, officials...