Word: barnful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tucked away in rolling wheat fields near Fort Worth, Tex., is one of the most astonishing war babies of World War II. Its name: Globe Aircraft Corp. Its age: 25 months. Its plant: an oversized barn. Its manufacturing experience: construction of only two small planes. Its backlog in War Department contracts: $18,500,000 (with $40,000,000 more said to be in prospect). Its chief owners: extraordinary and influential people...
...Kennedy went to Texas during World War I, picked up a reputation as an amateur boxer, made money in chemicals, vaccines, livestock. He set up Globe with the help and cheers of the local Chamber of Commerce. Its plant was a 50-by-300-ft. tile and galvanized-iron barn built for Kennedy's string of show horses. Its intended product was a good-looking, twin-engined plastic-and-plywood "Executive Transport" designed to carry eight, sell for $35.000. This ship was built on the West Coast before Globe was formed...
...farmers put out their tomatoes; the first corn and cotton shoots pierced the fertile land of the Rio Grande Valley. In bottom pastures cows were bloated from eating too much fresh clover. Blue-bonnets carpeted the fields; red birds flashed in the forests; wasps began a lazy buzzing at barn rafters, building their nests. In San Antonio the first kites jerked high in the gusty winds; tennis courts were crowded; Mexican chicos waded in the shallows of San Antonio River...
...mare to serve that day he lolls around in his stall from 9 to 11, then lunch; 12:30 p.m. to 4: more lolling; 4:30 p.m.: cleaned and fed again (eats oats, bran, Nevada hay and a mixture of timothy and clover); then tucked into the barn for the night...
...barn was full of familiar early-morning smells: the sweetness of hay trampled into moist earth, musty harness leather, animals stirring in their stalls...