Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Again the atonement was spoiled, when a fond mother snatched her wailing baby from among the sacrificial twelve. When Willie came at last to the end of his story, he made the gesture of breaking a stick and said Ngahh, meaning "I break," or "the end...
...short, canny, sandy-haired young farmer named James Edward Rice decided to put his hens to a test. He built a sort of coop which trapped each hen and kept her there until he let her out and scored an egg or a blank. At year's end his flock's batting average was only about 65 eggs a year per hen, about the U. S. average. Into the stewpot went hens who didn't make the laying grade. Up went the batting average of Farmer Rice's flock...
...poultry fanciers from 48 States began a ten-day chicken festival. No less than 150,000 congress tickets were sold to poultry raisers four months before the opening. By the fourth day attendance was 110,000; 500,000 poultry folk were expected in Cleveland before this week's end...
...route to Western and Midwestern manufacturers (the largest at a $10,000 fee). In addition to license fees, National Chip Steak Co. collects ⅛? per steak royalty. Present output of "Chip Steaks" is at the rate of 30,000,000 a year, monthly royalties about $2,500. By the end of 1939 Carpenter expects to see royalties of $5,000 a month. Chip Steak Corp. of Illinois which began doing business two months ago in Chicago, reported to Salesman Carpenter that its output the second month was 66% above the first...
Today Sam and Bill and Louis Kapp, a young laundry worker who was their first salesman, have 225 employes, by next month's end will have 300 working three shifts. Over the boards, six draftsmen and eight designers wield pen and T square turning out drawings for scale models of most U.S. military and commercial airplanes in the air today, as well as many a foreign model. Comet has 6,000 dealers, 20 full-time salesmen, a branch and salesroom in Manhattan. Its models, ranging from the Dawn Patrol Fleet (retail price: five for 5?) to the Comet Clipper...