Word: hens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...city-operated radio station WNYC, Mayor Fiorello ("Lippy") LaGuardia speaks "nonpolitically" to his seven and a half million charges, exhorting them to follow him up the steep, stony path of municipal rectitude. Not many of his charges bother to listen. But on the Nov. 7 broadcast, His hen-shaped Honor extended his audience by tripping over his extended...
Roosters. A new way to produce fatter, tastier cockerels, to make even tough old roosters succulent, had been discovered by Biochemist Frederick W. Lorenz of the University of California. His method: the injection of a synthetic sex hormone. Lorenz had begun by wondering why a hen grows fat when it starts laying eggs. He proved it was because the female sex hormone, estrogen, increases the amount of fat in the blood. Lorenz then hit on the idea of giving estrogen (available in a cheap, synthetic form called diethylstilbestrol) to fatten up male fowl...
When the crack New York-Buffalo Lackawanna Limited cracked up one night a fortnight ago in upper New York State, available reporters were as scarce as hen's teeth. How the United Press got the story of the wreck, in which 28 died in live steam, made a yarn for pressroom spinning. Seldom had improvised telephone coverage, which newspapers and news associations constantly use, turned out so successfully...
Perhaps the best signpost to the trend of the times is the plight of Pudding, now the Hasty Pudding Service Club, for the use of officers stationed here. Then there's the Yard, with a play-pen for officers' kiddies next to Hollis Hall, and civilians seance as hen's teeth among the ancient elms...
...wish Sergeant Isacowitz all the good fortune in the world," declared Staff Sgt. Saul Seigle, expressing the feeling of the entire company. "He's been like a mother hen taking care of a brood of chickens. We're all his boys, and we're all proud...