Word: cornfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ruth Elizabeth McCormick Miller, daughter of ex-Congresswoman Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms, and Husband Maxwell Miller bought three acres of Illinois cornfield and two refrigerator cars, planned to set the cars in the cornfields and move in by Christmas...
Birmingham is almost a T. C. I. creation. When General Sherman marched to the sea, Birmingham was part cornfield, part foul-smelling swamp. In the '70s some damyankee speculators swooped down, began exploiting the rich, freak coal, iron and limestone deposits. Called "The Magic City," Birmingham spent its youth in filth, poverty, lawlessness. At one time it was called The Murder Capital of the World. When control of T. C. I. switched to U. S. Steel in 1907, Birmingham began to grow up. Slowly, painfully, the town spread out, cleaned up. Bursting with faith in the city...
Hampered by dense fog on his fight from Ponghkeepsic to Boston. Lothrop Withington, Jr. '42, former goldfish swallower, was forced to land his plane in an Uxbridge cornfield last night...
Next day, 21 local champions from eleven States lined up in the Keppy cornfield to wait the starting bomb in the husking contest. Favored by fence-row experts to win were Marion Link, Iowa State champion, Ecas Vaughan, Illinois State champion, Irving Bauman, also from Illinois, runner-up in the nationals in 1935 and 1938. The contestants, some of them stripped to the waist, sweated up & down the corn rows, snatching off the dried ears, husking them with a hook strapped to the wrist, flinging them against the "bang-boards" of tractor-drawn wagons...
Minneapolis-Moline in meeting this growing competition has produced a "Comfortractor." Its driver sits on upholstery in a cab heated, fitted with radio, dustproof, cooled by an electric fan-the answer to a clod-buster's prayer for release from boredom, sweat and cornfield dirt...