Word: chickens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grierson's Raid through the depths of Confederate territory during Grant's advance on Vicksburg. Summoning all her Southern charm, the proud beauty invites Wayne and his officers to dinner. Making the most of her downfall neckline, she leans low over the harried foe and offers him chicken: "What was yoah preference, thuh laig or thuh breast...
...After an 80-m.p.h. drive to the plantation of a friend, Long suffered what doctors called "slight heart failure," but recovered sufficiently to wolf a hearty dinner of roast beef, chicken and dumplings, corn, black-eyed peas, salad, beer, buttermilk and coffee. ¶ Raging at the wholesale desertion of his followers ("They're takin' a runout powder!"), Long began firing dozens of the unfaithful with the speed of a Cuban revolutionary tribunal. His worries increased when five other candidates, led by New Orleans' able Mayor deLesseps Morrison, announced their willingness to run for Governor against him. Meanwhile...
...Sending out a Maid to dp a salesman's work is the latest trick of U.S. farmers trying private enterprise methods to sell U.S. crop surpluses. Feed growers are prowling Europe looking for new markets to serve Europe's growing livestock industry; free samples of U.S. fried chicken, cigarettes and doughnuts are being handed out at trade fairs; Italian spaghetti manufacturers are being shown how to make good pasta with U.S. wheat, instead of their traditional but scarce durum wheat...
After samples of fried chicken were passed out at trade fairs in West Germany, U.S. poultrymen got orders for millions of pounds of frozen dressed poultry. When samples of U.S. cigarettes were handed out in Thailand, purchases of cigarettes made from U.S. tobacco jumped from 7,000,000 to 14 million in a month. Lately cotton consumption has risen 12% in France, 11% in West Germany, and 20% in Japan following trade-fair promotions. Industry sources believe the current 5,700,000-bale foreign market can be boosted to 8,000,000. Says the Cotton Council: "If we could...
...prefabricated walls. The furniture is frail and imitative. The kitchen contains a small, 1,300-ruble ($130) refrigerator that stands 3 ft. 9 in. high, is more like a 1939 than a 1959 U.S. model: the stove ($60) is so small that the oven would cramp a large chicken...