Word: hens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Building planes is still a complicated, unavoidably slow job. "You can put a hen to hatch a setting of eggs, and divide the setting among any number of hens, and put other hens to hatching part time . . . it is still going to take three weeks to hatch those eggs, because that is the time an egg requires to hatch...
Composer Walton's score arrived in Chicago late, only three weeks before it was to be played; it posed a problem for Chicago's Conductor Frederick Stock. Musicians' holographs are hen-tracky at best; this one was in pencil, was almost undecipherable. Conductor Stock and his assistant Hans Lange set to work to ink in the 500,000 notations, were soon floundering. They called in seven orchestra players, finally got the job done in ten days. At the first rehearsal, said Conductor Stock, the overture "sounded like Halifax." But its first playing proved it something else...
...reserved occupations is giving producers more to worry about. Fear is that after June, reservations will be removed altogether except for those working directly on Ministry and service films. Already there are shortages in skilled trades; make-up men, sound men, camera men, carpenters and plasterers are scarcer than hen's teeth. Even wigs are a problem, since the hair lace that forms their base was imported from the beleaguered Balkans...
...past month, listeners to Manhattan's WHOM have been diverted by the antic notions of Professor Rhinelander Briggs, B.S., billed as the greatest living authority on miscellaneous subjects. He has attacked Communists for introducing the little red hen into the nation's kindergartens, has aired what he claimed were sound effects recorded in the pouch of a kangaroo...
...Sept. 1, 1914 at 9:32 a.m. (Central Standard Time) in the Cincinnati Zoo died the last passenger pigeon on earth. In March 1932 on Martha's Vineyard died the last heath hen. In the autumn of 1875 the last Labrador duck was shot on Long Island. Last week a half-dozen other U. S. birds were in danger of extinction...