Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hastily Olsen & Johnson hauled Cline up on the stage, presented him with an ear of corn. But the master hecklers, Hollywood felt, had been outboxed as well as outfoxed...
...months the Carter Oil Co., subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, had been drilling for oil in the middle of Farmer R. F. Cottingham's corn and cotton fields in McClain County, Oklahoma. Now, as the drill bit touched 10,620 ft., the drillers had brought in the gun perforator to shoot 60 half-inch cartridges through the heavy steel casing. They were testing the famed Wilcox sand that, at a much shallower level (from 5,000-6,000 ft.), had turned the great Oklahoma City Field into a bonanza 15 years before...
...nothing, 69-year-old Farmer Cottingham is sitting pretty. With his own 390 acres, plus his two daughters' 320, he has royalty rights to a rich chunk of the Carter leasehold. Last week, in overalls and rubber boots, Farmer Cottingham phlegmatically cleared ground for more corn and cotton. But the gossips in Oklahoma City whispered that he had already been offered $10,000 for the royalty rights to a mere ten of his 710 acres...
...political crime of losing his heart to King James. Parliament outlawed the rest of the clan. So disinherited Captain Jack Fenwick prowled the Pennsylvania frontier in 1764, soon became a legend. Tall, springy, savage, he became one of those Indian fighters who were as necessary to the colonists as corn. Captain Jack was always vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when, in his absence, a party of drunken Hurons and five half-breed Frenchmen burned his house, tortured his wife and two children to death. Captain Jack's is the best of the four...
...last time a Republican won in the Second District was in 1920. Democratic majorities are as normal a product of the Second as corn and cotton. But in 1942 Democrat Jack Nichols squeaked through to re-election by only 365 votes. The Republican who almost beat him in 1942 is the man the Democrats are worried about now: Edwin O. Clark...