Word: pullets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First prize (a strictly functional Leghorn pullet) went to Tom Currie of Southport, Conn, for his "man"-a creature with a flat, streamlined head atop a flying-saucer body. He had an aspirin tablet for an eye and a built-in cigarette, but "no ears-radar perception; no stomach -no limit on drinking; no legs-walking, what's that?" Second prize (an egg) was won by Julian Everett of Manhattan for a cork-calved, swivel-eared robot whose right hand was a "clam digger for getting," his left a "built-in money box for keeping." Among the items...
Local haberdashers set wavering odds from 2 to 23 in favor of the pullet pulitzers, depending on the availability of antique fireballer R. Sibley (The Cat) Ludendorff, currently nursing a soggy-salary wing on the eve of the morning after...
...their reaction to the elimination of vests in spring suits. A shutdown on private radio sets was expected within 90 days. On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel...
...business of hatching baby chicks has become such a fine art that it is now possible for hatcherymen to ship their customers broods made up either of all-pullet chicks or all-cockerel chicks. Formerly, the poultry raiser had to take pot luck with his chicks, which were usually divided 50-50 as to sex by Mother Nature...