Word: hens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harrow, Ont., at the annual Dominion egg-laying contest, George A. Winton's hen suddenly stopped laying, began growing wattles and a comb, before the contest was over had turned into a rooster...
...Like a hen sitting patiently on a nest full of china eggs and growing worried because they would not hatch, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau has since last December been sitting on the Government's sterilized golden nest egg. Ever since then, the Government has been buying all the gold imported into the U. S. and storing it away to prevent the normal inflationary effect of such an influx. With recent imports of $5,000,000 a day and a sterile nest egg of $1,145,000,000, Mr. Morgenthau has been kept busy borrowing money to buy more...
Manhattan's ingenious American Museum of Natural History last week got ready to exhibit the newest trick in museum educational work. Back of a picket fence the visitor sees a stuffed hen looking at a painting of other hens and a rooster in a barnyard (see cut). As the visitor looks a loudspeaker narrates: "The hens in the barnyard seem to us all very much alike. We would have great difficulty in distinguishing one from another if we did not put rings or other identification marks on their legs. But to the hen every other hen in the yard...
...that instant a stage trick of lighting makes the background fade out, and a scene of a barnyard as a hen sees it comes into the visitor's view. The rooster is enormous (see cut). The loudspeaker continues: ". . . for there is a social system in the barnyard. One hen ... can peck another hen . . . without being pecked back, and a third hen can peck still a fourth . . . without fear of retaliation. The rooster stands at the head of this social system, but beneath him,' in a definite social order, are arranged the various hens. This social system does...
...hen high in the social system does not ordinarily peck those low in the system. The others give way to her whenever she appears. On the other hand, the hen low in the system may be very cruel toward its subordinates...