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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But when Wallace finally got his hybrid, it started laying eggs earlier in the season than other breeds, laid larger eggs and more of them. In test runs sponsored by Iowa State College, four flocks of his hybrids netted an egg profit of $3.88 a hen a year, while other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Revolution in Chickens? | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Detroit's Charles Langs, who invented a stick-on, strapless bra named "Poses," but came a cropper when he tried to market it (TIME, Aug. 29), sold out to Textron Inc. The price: $70,000 in cash and the prospect of more in royalties. With the bright merchandising idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW PRODUCTS: At the Cockfight | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Black Gold. Near Wichita Falls, Tex., Gene Autry's sixth well, begun a fortnight ago, had come in handsomely. The drillers had struck oil at 5,000 ft. The well gushed 1,200 barrels the first day, settled down to a tidy daily flow of 1,000 barrels. (Autry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Hollywood Wildcats | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Star Dust. In Texas' Scurry County, on a 1,700-acre tract leased by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, drillers brought in a 1,000-barrel well, their second in two months. Hope and Crosby and their two Texas partners promptly began drilling two more. Near by, Don Ameche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Hollywood Wildcats | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

In each of his works Henry Green has tried to investigate a new condition of life. His special "experiment" (apart from tricks of punctuation that are usually more irritating than useful) is to catch his variegated Britons in a situation (blindness, old age, a dense fog) from which they cannot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Molten Treasure | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

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