Word: potful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mass-produced U.S. chicken that has made headlines by being kept out of Europe has also been making history of a sort down on the farm. This year the U.S. will produce a record of more than 2 billion chickens, enough to put two chickens in the pot of every family in the world. Today's chicken growers are more industrialists than mere farmers, and they preside over a $3.5 billion-a-year business. They have learned the lessons of automation and cost controls so well that they now run one of the nation's most efficient industries...
Meanwhile, the breakfast of hamburgers, pancakes and scrambled eggs was disappearing fast. A young man from Greenwich engaged three girls in a discussion of Plato. Another had to be extricated from a giant flower pot...
...other cities, too, in Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., Gadsden, Ala., racial strife receded as whites and Ne groes tried to resolve their conflicts at negotiating tables instead of in the streets. The ugliest racial disorders of the week, ironically, occurred in New York, the great melting pot, a city of minorities, a city that years ago enacted laws forbidding discrimination in housing and employment. Negro demonstrators protesting job discrimination in the construction industry marched and picketed, knelt in the mud at construction sites, sat in front of bulldozers, singing
...Since the three young artists were in revolt against convention, including the hiring of professional models, they painted their own girl friends in the nude; at any one time three or four of these young ladies might be milling in happy nakedness around the kerosene stove, on which a pot of coffee was always steaming. The artists worked at any hour of the day or night; and while two sketched, a third would recite Nietzsche or Rilke...
Died. George Malvin Holley, 85, auto pioneer who in 1902 was asked by Henry Ford to design a fuel system, produced an "iron pot" carburetor to stoke the engines of 15 million model Ts (as well as Buicks, Pierce-Arrows, Winstons), went on in 1935 to develop the fuel system for the model T of aviation, the Douglas DC-3, and built his Holley Carburetor Co. to current sales of more than $50 million annually; after a long illness; in Detroit...