Word: hens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jimmy Walker, who rode grinning in the middle (see cut). The third backseat rider, Chairman Albert Henry Wiggin of Manhattan's Chase National Bank, has nobody knows how many foreign commitments. Appropriately Mayor Jimmy made Banker Al the City's official greeter. Striking the note of a hen on anxious eggs at the City Hall, Mr. Wiggin greeted...
...feather firms buy direct from Cape farms, smaller ones go to importers. Most other feathers are also imported. China furnishes plumage from swans and peacocks. Pheasant and partridge feathers, the only ones from wild birds which may be imported to the U. S., come from Great Britain. Guinea hen feathers are imported from Italy, barnyard feathers from Czechoslovakia. Thanks to Empress Eugenie, the industry is confident of a good demand until October...
Down out of the sky upon Central Airport at Moscow plunked a bewildered hen and a dozen eggs. Neither the hen nor any of the eggs was damaged. Their fall, from an airplane 3,300 ft. high, was a demonstration of a new parachute designed by Soviet experts. Developed to support only small loads, the chute was of conventional design, but with a rubber hood affixed over its basket. The hood fills with air and expands in descent, decreasing the rate of fall to about 16.4 ft. per sec. (Ordinary rate of fall of U. S. made parachutes with...
...Pennsylvania Game Commission vouched for this story: On the track ahead of his engine, Engineer John Staplcton of the Philadelphia & Reading R. R. saw something fluttering, flopping. He stopped the train, climbed out, perceived it was a hen woodcock broken-winging to save her chicks who were between the rails...
Described as a "fairy opera for the childlike," Jack and the Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure...