Word: airings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...
Tipton's farmers had the relaxed air of men who have plenty of meat in their smokehouses, though they weren't the kind to crow about it. "I don't aim to get caught if anything happens," said Farmer Clarence Horton. Horton, who farms 200 acres on a 50-50 basis with the owner, started from scratch 20 years ago; the last five years have set him firmly on his feet. He now owns two tractors and a combine; his barn and tool sheds are jammed with plows, harrows, seeders. "I have bought everything I am going...
...Carrillo had to be put off until midnight. Rival Houston Hotelman Jesse Jones sat it all out quietly. Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation [of] Rockefeller Center out here on the prairie . . . There should be written in front of it, in great tall letters, in electric lights...
...records. Says Peter: "Sounds corny, but I always liked Beethoven." He was set to studying sight-reading at seven, could read music before he could play an instrument, still plays "terrible piano." At 17, he went to Ohio's Oberlin Conservatory, then after a spell in the Air Force, took his degrees (including a Ph.D.) at Rochester's Eastman School of Music...
...parts for his transmitter. In the center of the.machine he came upon a 6-in. cylinder labeled "Destructor." The cylinder contained two dynamite caps and a tube of thermite. Trippler's little find fascinated Detroit cops, the Michigan state police, the War Assets Administration, the Military, Air Force and Naval Intelligence...