Word: barne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eighths inch sisal rope. The woman clerk who waited on him paid scant attention to the $11 sale. So far as she knew, the wispy customer was just another farmer, in town for the day, buying rope to break a balky horse or fix a hay lift in the barn...
...week of frustration for many: ¶After gathering farmers for miles around to watch a demonstration of his fire-extinguishing bomb, an enterprising salesman set it up in a tobacco barn near Dillon, S.C., gleefully built a fire of hay and leaves beneath it, then waited for it to put out the fire. It didn't-at least not before the spectators had to run out. And after that the barn burned down. ¶Mrs. Janice Pollock, who was chosen as Mrs. America of 1946 but turned down the honor (and a chance to make $2,500) to stay...
...Arms and the Girl" opens, a cannonball crashes through the back wall of a barn, lands on the stage, and rolls directly toward an alarmed audience. The new Theatre Guild musical comedy is aimed at a target just as broad--the old New England custom of bundling--and it scores a hit almost as solid as the one by the cannonball...