Word: eggs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bekaa Valley farm of Khalil's father. Ghattas turned the farm into such a show place that U.S. Point Four officials sent him to Purdue University to study animal husbandry. When he returned, he and Stevenson launched Greenleaf, began importing two breeds of U.S. chickens, one for egg-laying, the other for meat...
Last week Greenleaf signed a new contract to provide Beirut's airport restaurant with 750,000 fresh eggs a year. A British contractor asked Greenleaf to set up a vast poultry farm in Libya (on a percentage basis). A businessman in Saudi Arabia, anxious to furnish Mecca with fresh eggs, offered Greenleaf a similar contract. At a subsidiary farm near Shiraz, Iran, Greenleaf stepped up production to supply Iran's egg market. This week Greenleaf also made its first shipment of eggs to Aramco in Saudi Arabia, which now imports them from Australia. Predicted Stevenson: in 1960 Greenleaf...
...transrector. Built by Hufford Corp. of El Segundo, Calif., it weighs 121,000 Ibs., costs $750,000. With its two engines and its five-man crew, it can lift a booster from deep underground and brandish it like a cigar. Its massive but sensitive arms can pin an egg down so delicately that the shell is not cracked, yet so firmly that the egg cannot be removed without breaking...
...however, strongly support Hume's greatness on the ground that the force of his personality definitely affected the age in which he lived. It is not a question of the cart before the horse in either case, merely the old problem of which came first, the chicken or the egg. In any case, there is much to be said on both sides...
...blond wearing a robin's egg-blue dress. She smiled and asked "What's your name and where do you come from." "Panama, but we read the papers down there. I rode up on my burro but his feet got wet crossing the canal." "Oh, really? My father loves horses." They danced for a few minutes, and Gene became bored. "Excuse me, I have to go. Big polo match tomorrow and my horse kicks me if I'm late." "Oh really? My father loves horses...