Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acre Bricker farm was near Mt. Sterling, on the flat, rich land southwest of Columbus. John Bricker grew up amid fields full of sheep, black-faced lambs, Poland China pigs, sturdy bay work horses, golden wheat and corn that grew go bushels to the acre...
...lawn tennis remained Dick Sears's favorite game. Still spry and fierce-eyed, he turned up against his doctor's orders at the 1931 Golden Jubilee of the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association. Said he: "They only hold these things every 50 years and I may not be here for the next...
...stop making money, what with taxes, the opprobrium attached to high earnings in wartime, and all. But when a tycoon has used extraordinary ingenuity for many years in devising ways & means to make the money roll in, he cannot easily or suddenly disengage himself from the golden flow...
...rubber from any of the thousands of other rubber-bearing plants that have been studied. Cornell's Dr. Lewis Knudson has tried some 30 himself, says "No native plant can be recommended at present as a source of rubber." Swamp milkweed may yield 45 Ib. an acre; golden rod, 75 Ib.; Indian hemp not more than 25 Ib. The Russian dandelion (kok-sagyz), seeds of which were rushed to the U.S. from the U.S.S.R. a year ago, contains rubber of good quality, easily separated from the root, but farm labor shortage makes its cultivation impracticable...
What will also never cease to amaze me is that the gentlement in New didn't gobble up such a golden opportunity. Blame it on "dat ole debbil Commercialism...