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They are written in a kind of perfected prose-a prose stripped of all discursive verbiage and whittled down into functional verse shapes. Thus, of a hen mocking bird engaged in feeding her brood, Poetess Moore writes...
...Order. In Occupied France it was decreed that, if any hen in the Somme failed to lay 50 eggs a year, its owner would be fined...
Service. In Olympia, Wash., Mrs. Mary Guadette learned the Government wanted an egg speedup, hung a sign in her chicken house reading: "Keep 'em frying!'' One hen's answer: an egg that measured 7 in. around the center, 8 in. the long way, and had three yolks...
...airplane output could be boosted: honest-to-God freezing of designs. Some planemakers complain that the Army still changes its mind more often than a hen crossing a road. Concentrating on fewer models would also eventually boost output. OPM has a standardization plan in the works, may test it on pursuit-ship output in a few big factories...
...some time Butch had been skimping his Mayoralty to work at the Office of Civilian Defense. By the same token he was skimping OCD. Even Mr. Roosevelt, according to a persistent report, shared this view, but could think of no painless way of easing LaGuardia out. Meantime hen-shaped Fiorello continued to fly back & forth between Washington and New York, always a little out of breath and red in the face. At a ceremony marking the start of his third Mayoralty term, he flapped his wet wings and exploded with bantam wrath...