Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cattle to Market. Beef slaughterings have been running as much as 40% below last year-with the bulk going to the armed forces. But last week, on the Western ranges, kept green and thick by heavy spring rains, the grass was finally starting to dry up. Soon ranchers will have to start feeding their livestock grain, which is almost impossible to get, or send their herds off to market. This set the stage for a record stampede...
Keep off the grass. Only this time it's the Boston Common grass, and it's after 2200. That includes "The Boston Common, except the Buddies' Club; the Public Gardens; and the Esplanade (whatever that is), except the Esplanade Club." And that's an order...
...group, the Americans found no Japs. Ahead was hard work to establish camps and airplane landing strips, but the soldiers also had time to meet the friendly natives. Soon each soldier had an island price list, computed in terms of the stinking twist tobacco which serves for currency (one grass skirt, two or three sticks; one turtle, two sticks...
This week the great Whirlaway heard his last bugle call. At Chicago's Washington Park, history's greatest money-winning thoroughbred ($561,161) ambled on to the track, made a farewell bow, then started back to the Kentucky blue grass where, five years ago, he was born...
...house near Candlewood Lake. Honored by degrees from Yale, Purdue and Harvard, he plans another lectern Bible, is finishing up odds & ends of jobs started years ago. His biggest immediate problem: to get his power lawn mower working so that he can run it over his Connecticut acre of grass...