Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fiery Crucible. Then Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul Stryker strode toward the jury box-and the atmosphere of the trial suddenly changed. At 64, after 40 years as a pleader and advocate, frowning, crop-haired Lloyd Stryker was one of the most spectacular trial lawyers in the U.S. His voice ranged from a soothing whisper to a thundering roar as he began turning out flamboyant courtroom oratory...
Fear the Devil. The bumper harvest brought a big problem to all U.S. wheat farmers, and it was not the weather; it was what to do with the crop. There was no place to store it. Most of the nation's bins and elevators were still bulging with last year's wheat. The situation in Texas was typical: there was enough storage space to hold around 140 million bushels, but three-fifths of it was already filled with 1948 wheat and grain sorghums. That meant there was only room for this year's first 55 million bushels...
Diploma holders seeking employment will have to buck against fever jobs and a bumper crop of graduates, Ewen Clague, Federal Commissioner of Labor Statistics, said in a statement yesterday...
Nitwit Champion. Such thoroughness, practiced more in Europe than in the U.S., aims to develop disciplined horses that can adjust to race-track life. But there was one notable exception, a nitwit named Whirlaway, in the 1939 yearling crop...
Back of these stars Ben Jones & Co. have a flashy crop of two-year-olds, neatly named as usual by Mrs. Warren Wright. One is Shine Boy, a bay colt whose Calumet Farm report card carries these impressive comments: "Extremely great hay-eater . . . has everything a good horse needs." Another is a fiery chestnut named Urgent: "top Blenheim II colt." Nevertheless, Ben Jones suspects that when Derby Day, 1950, rolls around, a brown son of Bull Lea may be the colt to beat. His name: All Blue...