Word: fourth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story of Four Feathers, from a Kiplingesque novel by A. E. W. Mason, concerns a young British officer who leaves his regiment on the eve of active duty, gets white feathers from his three old messmates and a fourth from his disillusioned fiancée, and then goes through hell & hot water to give them back. Although this fable is energetically enacted, Four Feathers is most memorable for its desert and battle scenes, dyed in the renowned Korda Technicolor. John Bullish characterization: Commander of the British Empire Charles Aubrey Smith, as an ancient fire-eater whose hobby is re-enacting...
...sometimes as slot-&-rim man. He followed carnivals as pressagent, married a carnival girl. Once in Oklahoma City he got what he called "a eatin' job" selling tea from house to house. He made $120 the first week, $140 the second week, $135 the third week, quit the fourth week to take a $35 job on a paper...
...Farmer Rice and his crude trap-nest goes credit for starting the scientific breeding of hens that has made modern egg production possible. The poultry business is today close to a billion-dollar-a-year industry (fourth after cattle, hogs and dairying in U.S. agriculture's gross income). To Professor Rice, founder (1903) and retired (1934) head of Cornell's first U. S. poultry school, goes credit, too, for fathering poultry breeding as an agricultural science...
...cackle of 10,000 assorted fowl, delegates from 45 foreign nations and 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...
...about the last half was bitter. The automobile industry, he pointed out, is covered on its steel requirements until early 1940, lesser users of strip mill products until October. Meanwhile, Bethlehem's 60.4% operating rate is supported by an order backlog-including steel orders for fourth-quarter automobiles of only $184,921,081 (compared to a backlog of $192,040,906 and production at 53.8% three months before), no good omen for fourth-quarter production...