Word: cimarron
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the combines clanked northward, farmers from the Red River to beyond the Cimarron reported a miracle. Instead of the forecast five or six bushels an acre, the marginal fields were yielding 16 and up. In the good fields, one farm produced 52 bushels an acre, another 75. Fearing that no one would believe him, Harry Corbet of Alfalfa County got the State Board of Agriculture to certify that his four acres of bottom land had yielded a whopping 83 bushels an acre. With 80% of the crop cut, Oklahomans joyfully boosted their estimates to 88 million bushels...
...Rose of Cimarron...
...Edna Ferber once remarked, "writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud," she is easily one of the world's most determined plodders. So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, American Beauty, Come and Get It and Saratoga Trunk have established her as a writer who is apparently unable to produce either a disappointing or a startling book. Great Son, though less strongly plotted than its predecessors, is the dependable Ferber brand of slickly written, cinemadaptable Americana...
...Seven oil company truckers dropped their half-eaten hamburgers in the Liberty Café. Their loaded gas trucks were last seen roaring northward out Cimarron Street...
Waite Phillips, oil-wealthy Tulsa financier, gave the Boy Scouts of America: i) his 91,000-acre ranch near Cimarron, N.Mex.; 2) a 23-story skyscraper in Tulsa...