Word: minked
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...story of Stenographer Lauretta Young's mink coat was not exactly earthshaking, but at least it was almost understandable. That was more than could be said for the rest of the bewildering array of doubletalk, political shenanigans and obvious perjury inscribed last week on the records of the Senate subcommittee investigating operations of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation...
...pellet thrust under the skin of the pullet's neck. If the head and neck were removed, according to instructions, before the broiler was marketed, no human chicken-eater would get the remains of the pellet. To avoid waste, the department suggested feeding the chicken head to ranch mink...
Last month Agriculture became the target of a bill in Congress to pay Mink Rancher Henry J. Krueger of Elgin, Ill. $55,591. Krueger's lawyers charged that, following official instructions, he fed stilbestrolized chicken heads to his mink. As a result, many young female mink had been made barren. They had to be prematurely "pelted," i.e., become mink coats before becoming mothers. So did the mink of almost 30 other ranchers...
Hearings on the bill, which start soon, promise to be lively. Krueger's lawyers have horrid tales to tell, not only of mink but of men. They tell of a male sex criminal who was given stilbestrol to keep him under control. His genitals shrank, but his breasts developed alarmingly...
...Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin, a $70,000 hospital from the British-owned Anglo-Iranian...