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...ever encountered before, and insisted on knowing what was in it. The woman said it would be better if he didn't, and gave him a second cup. Finally, she said: "It's an Indian recipe - my grandmother's. It's made of powdered cockerel's whiskers." "That may be," says Eliot, "but it really works...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 4, 1949 | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

...some of her Oklahoma City friends recall it. Pearl, as they unfeelingly refer to her, did not come to Oklahoma until 1906, they say, when she was a full-blown, dark-haired woman of 25. Her father, William B. Skirvin, was a farm-implement salesman, a brash, stubby little cockerel of a man, who left Sturgis, Mich, and headed for the thriving Southwest. Like many another boomer, he set up in real estate in Galveston, Tex., then made a killing around Alta Loma, 18 miles north. Oldtimers are still bitter about that. Wrote...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAPITAL: Widow from Oklahoma | 3/14/1949 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Time to Re-Tire | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...Britain's No. 1 Ally: > Britain would have to choose, said Liberal Edgar Granville, whether she should become "a western outpost of totalitarian Europe or the eastern outpost of an American-controlled civilization." Russia, he felt, was Britain's No. 1. Ally. ". . . It is the Russian cockerel which has saved the necks of the few chickens." > Conservative Sir Archibald Southby, apparently giddy with Lend-Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those vitally important places [Far Eastern bases] rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Objection from Helgoland | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...reason for the boom is this fact: turkeys eat less (per pound of growth) than chickens. By the time he weighs 3½ lb., a White Leghorn cockerel has packed away over 20 lb. of feed, a male turkey less than 10 lb. Turkey ranchers increased their flocks; prices fell from 60? or more a pound in 1927 to less than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: A Lesson From the Turkeys | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

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