Word: field
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christie light tank, powered with a Liberty motor, plunged and reared across a churned-up field at 40 m. p. h. With the track-laying belt removed, this tank had gone 69 m. p. h., might go 90 m. p. h. on a good road...
Divorced. Dudley Field Malone, lawyer, onetime (1913-17) Collector of the Port of New York, Woodrow Wilson confidant, legal advisor to publicites (James Joseph Tunney, Gertrude Ederle); by Mrs. Doris Stevens Malone, oldtime "suffragette," onetime advisor to the Women's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor; at Paris. Grounds: desertion. They first met when she, a member of the National Women's Party, campaigned against Wilson (1916) whom he, a Democrat, supported...
...Marshall Field Carle C. Conway...
...cheerful development was that 28 Oklahoma oil producers had met, unanimously agreed to put state-wide restrictions into effect. Previous voluntary curtailment, believed by oilmen to be the only remedy for overproduction, had been mostly between operators in a single field. Two such restrictions went in effect in Oklahoma last month and are believed to have been the reason that Midcontinent petroleum prices have been maintained while oil from other fields has been reduced...
...later told their fathers, many of whom complained by letter against "miseducation.'' Eight ticket scalpers were arrested and let off. One J. A. Norwood, who had come from Texas, and a hundred other people presented tickets they had bought from scalpers and were sent home. Mrs. Stanley Field dropped a $3,000 brooch, received it back from an honest finder, came next day without jewels. . . . All these things and more happened last week because in Chicago, and then in Philadelphia, the Chicago Cubs played the Philadelphia Athletics for "the baseball championship of the world...