Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosophical Debate. British farmers agree that the battery system was at least partly responsible for the increase in egg production that put an end to egg rationing (TIME, April 13). But is it fair to the hen? The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (R.S.P.C.A.) said no: "It's unnatural. We don't speak about happiness or unhappiness, because nobody can tell whether a hen is happy or not. [But] if you let expediency rule your action and disregard feeling for others, the world is in a poor state. That kind of thing is like...
...abuse of the power man was given over beasts at the creation of the world," wrote Mrs. Cynthia Legh. Countered H. A. Grundy: "I wouldn't like to eat an egg laid by a hen kept in some people's backyards...
...Waldorf-Astoria, the Stork, or even Maxim's, serve no greater variety of customers than the countermen at John's Diner on Fulton Street in Brooklyn. John's, as a matter of fact, has the edge-it stays open all night. But despite their deep, egg-spattered knowledge of human eccentricity, nobody in John's had the slightest inkling that a new and glorious page in the diner's history was about to be written when William ("The Laughing Bandit") Kampi lowered himself to a stool at 3:30 a.m. one morning last week...
...egg powder for infants gave P.H.S. its biggest detective job. The first case of dysentery showed up in the District of Columbia. Then came reports from New York City. Eventually, more than 50 cases in 16 states were proved, all traceable to egg powder from a single manufacturer. Within the month, the disease detectives clinched their case and yanked the whole lot off the market...
...Brooklyn's Ocean Parkway Jewish Center Day Camp, 125 youngsters, 20 counselors and three bus drivers began to keel over like tenpins. More than 100, aged eight to twelve, went to hospitals, and 37 stayed overnight, but all recovered quickly. Suspected cause of food poisoning: mayonnaise in an egg salad, served when the temperature was heading...