Word: cornfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest show on earth" (according to informed critics who have seen it) is now in the 20th month of an amazing run. Scene of the show is a Mexican plateau near the Pacific, 200 miles west of Mexico City. Paricutin, the new volcano which erupted from a cornfield, has grown to a mountain some 1,500 feet high and shows no signs of weakening. Natives call it El Monstruo. Belching 2,700 tons of fiery rock a minute, the crater has over-awed hundreds of tourists. At its more spectacular moments, spectators break into applause. One woman, after watching...
Holmes was in his final year at Harvard when Fort Sumter was bombarded. He was commissioned a lieutenant in the Twentieth Massachusetts Infantry, was wounded three times. The second time, as he lay near death in a cornfield, a passing chaplain murmured: "You're a Christian, aren't you? Well then, that's all right." The third time his right heel was almost torn off. Captain Holmes kept the wound open with a sliver of carrot. "I pinched W's heel a little the other day," wrote his jolly father, "and asked him into what vegetable...
...well-greased machinery, at a cost of $858,000, for shipment to other plants. Buildings will be left standing for a time. The farmers were moving back to the fertile land. Quipped one, sardonically twisting the boast of plant-sprouting 1942: "You wouldn't believe it, but this cornfield was once a war plant...
Collect the Profits. The gun soon blasted out of its garage home, forced Nelson to incorporate as the Nelson Specialty Welding Equipment Corp. He borrowed $95,000 from RFC, put up a new plant in a San Leandro cornfield. Soon he was supplying guns to 120 shipyards...
...Grauman took a show on tour to Los Angeles, stayed there. In no time he had opened Grauman's Million Dollar Theater, the largest and most lavish Cinemansion of its day. Then he bought a Hollywood cornfield and built Grauman's Egyptian, a bewilderingly garish "architectural crazy house." So successful were its showings that in the first few years it ran only eight pictures. In 1927 came Grauman's Chinese, his masterpiece in Hollywood rococo...