Word: pullets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small egg, duck egg, goose egg, guinea egg, robin's egg, pigeon egg, quail egg, small pullet's egg, banty egg; walnut, English walnut, hulled walnut, hull of walnut, pecan acorn, unhulled walnut; grain of corn, few grains of maize, bean, navy bean, pea, lentil seed, soup bean; orange, small orange, lemon, small lemon, lime, grapefruit, half grape, melon, dried prune, stuffed olive; dollar, dime, nickel, quarter, half a dollar, dollar and a half; saucer, dinner plate; pencil point, BB shot; third of a baseball, football-sized mass, volley ball; fist, hand, thumb, child's fist...
Slugs, Slugs, Slugs. At first Leverone felt like a pullet plunging into a weasel den. A Dartmouth graduate ('06, Phi Beta Kappa) and a successful real-estate operator who was also secretary of Chicago's Crime Commission, he found a business controlled by sharpers and racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer...
Shopping housewives had a pleasant surprise last week. Frying chickens and broilers were selling under 40? a lb. in many a store, down from about 55? a month ago. Prices of medium and small pullet eggs were also down at a time when egg and poultry prices usually rise...
Agriculture said further that stilbestrol should be administered as a 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...