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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cartooned. Funniest: a technocratic hen laying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Technocracy's Week | 1/23/1933 | See Source »

...rampant Progressive, is regular today. Oil made him rich. All in one week last year he won the party nomination for governor, became the father of a daughter and brought in a 500-bbl.-per-day oil well. As a boy he once held an old hen on her nest until she delivered the egg necessary to complete a dozen he had promised to deliver that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Crop of Governors | 1/16/1933 | See Source »

...actor. He has killed one of his mates, two of their calves. Last week Big Nick was in another bad humor: his new mate had just presented him with another calf. Gus Mott, 63-year-old farmer turned zookeeper, feared Big Nick less than he feared the big ostrich hen that lived in the next pen. One day last week the ostrich turned on Keeper Mott, raised her horny foot to strike. Keeper Mott ran, vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Bad Gnu | 7/25/1932 | See Source »

...Tourists of the U. S. country fairs are Belle, Snuffles, Betsy, Percy and Biddy-all models from the Department. Belle is a cow who waggles her mouth, spurts milk. Snuffles is a sow, Betsy and Percy her bloated shoats. Biddy is a hen who has traveled to England (TIME, Aug. 11, 1930). Biddy and Belle phonographically declare what they like to eat. Snuffles pleads for clean pastures. The shoats squeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fly Time | 7/11/1932 | See Source »

...Langhorne, Pa., to make room for a speakeasy in his home, James Kile, 35, made his 75-year-old mother live in a hen coop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: 50,000,000th | 6/6/1932 | See Source »

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