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When Baumann became a salesman of veterinarian supplies, he made it his hobby to collect freak chicks from hatcheries. A few of them were wingless; others had stubby wings. For twelve years he bred together the more promising freaks. Last week he showed about 400 wingless birds. To a non-practiced eye, the live birds do not look much different from ordinary chickens, but in place of wings they have a scarcely noticeable depressed area. Their drumsticks are somewhat larger than those of winged chickens and their necks are a little longer...
...July, two Eastern Airlines pilots flying over Alabama met a "wingless aircraft, 100 ft. long, cigar-shaped and about twice the diameter of a B-29." Dazzling blue light glared from its windows, and long orange flame streamed out behind. It shot past the airliner at a speed one-third faster than common jets...
...over the U.S., which had been remarkably vacant since the last of the flying saucers wheeled off and vanished (TIME, July 21, 1947), was suddenly full of whizzing lights and large shining objects. A pair of Eastern Air Lines pilots saw the first-some kind of wingless plane with two rows of lighted windows and a plume of red flame at its tail. Then two CAA employees saw a "gigantic silvery ball" floating over Yakima, Wash...
Despite the production difficulties of the curtainless, wingless, lightless Sanders hall, Holabird says that it has "one great intanglible quality of space which no other theatre hereabouts can rival...
...Territorial Board of Agriculture and Forestry, troubled by two new pests, hoped that the old method would work again. The pests: 1) the anacamptodes moth, a bright little creature whose larvae have riddled the islands' main forage crops; 2) the pineapple mealy bug, a small, white, wingless sapsucker that might wilt every pineapple plant in Hawaii if costly spraying were halted...