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...Flock Together. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cocktail lounge boss H. Greet sued the Miami Rare Bird Farm for $75,000 after 1) two parakeets he bought from the aviary "for Oriental atmosphere" died of parrot fever, 2) the county health department ordered his remaining 25 exotic birds destroyed, 3) his saloon was quarantined for five days...
Following suggestions from earlier experimenters, he focused on a weakness of the flies: the females are strictly monogamous. They mate only once with one male. Then they reject other suitors and concentrate on laying eggs. So Bushland raised a flock of flies on a mixture of blood and hamburger and irradiated them heavily with X rays. This treatment made them sterile. When the X-rayed males mated with fertile wild females, the females laid infertile eggs...
Welland was "very pleased" with his team's play against the Huskies. "If we keep playing as well as that," he said, "any team will have a tough time with us. We played excellent hockey, with lots of spirit. Some night we're going to get a flock of goals...
...duly noted. First, the accents are botched. Natives of the Western Isles speak without a burr (or in Gaelic), and it is said that the purest English in the world can be heard in Inverness, capital of the highlands. Yet the Bonnie Prince Charlie characters sound like a flock of Glasgow longshoremen...
Jewell ships out chicks to nearly 1,000 farmers in eleven counties, provides them with feed, on credit. After the birds are fattened, Jewell takes them back, paying the farmers on the basis of weight gained. His rule of thumb: an average flock of 1,000 chicks should attain a live weight of 2¾ Ibs. apiece in eleven weeks, on 9,000 Ibs. of feed. For this standard performance, the farmer nets $125. If more feed is used, the farmer is docked; if less, he gets a premium...