Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Green-eyed, 31-year-old Mr. Sadler is an East Texan whose mother sold her chickens to give him a start when oil was discovered in the great East Texas field nine years ago. Hustling Jerry Sadler worked at odd jobs and high wages, saved his money and studied law. Last year, still a political unknown, he ran for a place on the important Texas Railroad Commission (which regulates Texas oil production). Weeks before Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel started to campaign with his Hillbilly Band, Jerry Sadler was touring Texas with the Sadler Stringsters...
...Valley, after four years' uneven struggle against mounting debts for machinery and equipment supplied by the Government, prepared to reap the best harvest in years and write off some of their obligations, an Arctic blast sent the mercury down to 10° below zero. Potatoes froze in the field, 80% of the grain stood in the field, unharvested and ruined, acres of market produce were destroyed, and under a foot and a half of snow the Valley lay in white, stricken silence...
...Weather Man predicts "Clear"; the odds say Harvard. But nothing will be clear until 2 o'clock, when an untested and unknown Crimson eleven meets its first stiff opposition in Soldiers Field against Pennsylvania...
...Penn is not completely reliant on power. In addition to the adoption of the Harlow offense, the team has two dangerous open field runners in Frank Reagan and Ed Allen, and Harlan Gustafson is probably the most spectacular receiver in Ivy League circles...
With Captain Howie Mendel laid up by water on the Knee and fullback Dave Ives partially hindered by a bad charley horse, the soccer team will not have an easy time of its game with M. I. T. this afternoon on the Business School field...