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...August 1929 the crowds at the National Air Races in Cleveland tittered with amused wonderment to see a winged windmill plump itself down like a weary old hen in midfield. Since then the U. S. public has known, more or less vaguely, that the weird machine was an autogiro; that it was supposed to rise almost vertically, descend slowly and vertically; that it was undergoing some sort of experiments at the hands of its inventor, Senor Juan de la Cierva and its U. S. promoter, Harold F. Pitcairn, manufacturer of airplanes. But it was still a strange and dubious invention...
Which is to say the difference between a man and a hen. . . . Pep is something that makes a man straighten up, throw out his chest, stick out his chin, and do things. . . . It brightens his wits. It sharpens his tongue. It creates sunshine all around...
...something that sends shivers down the back and saps all the energy in the body. Did you ever see a hen with pip? Her wings are drooped, her feathers ruffled, her head hangs down . . . her cackle is gone, her eyes are watery. . . . She is sick all over...
...Kingston, N. C., a farmer promised Thomas J. White and Ray Barbre a hen's egg for every rat they killed on his farm. When they had shot 70 the farmer begged to be released from the bargain because he needed the rest of his eggs for his family, offered to substitute sweet potatoes. White and Barbre shot 30 more rats...
Dominion Demands. There was much more in the Empire hen house last week than angry clucking. Abruptly in a single day all the Dominions, led by Canada, asked Great Britain to scrap her traditional, her immemorial policy of Free Trade...