Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...across the Rio Grande, Captain King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, was fascinated by the lush grass where the Wild Horse Desert grew green along the brush-lined bends of Santa Gertrudis Creek. Soon afterwards, he deserted the river for ranching. By the time the Civil War broke out, Rancher King was spreading his holdings steadily, a business tactic that had been taught him by a lieutenant...
...Grass. A native of Wisconsin, Johnson organized his first orchestra when he was 13 ("If no one is going to give you an orchestra, you have to go out and make one"). By the time he took over the Cincinnati in 1947, he had formed half a dozen of. his own orchestras, had also put in a teaching stint at the University of Michigan. To put together his Fish Creek outfit he raided virtually every major orchestra in the U.S. In five seasons Johnson has conducted no fewer than 15 world premieres and eleven U.S. premieres...
Destroyer. Crab grass, dandelions and other weeds can be cleaned out in about five days by using a new weed killer just put on sale in Canada by Inventor Robert Blain of Calgary. A 2-ft., lipsticklike bar composed of raw wax, crude oil and 2, 4-D, Blain's Weedmaster Block is merely dragged once over the lawn to coat the grass with weed killer. Price of a 4-lb. bar, enough to protect about 4,000 sq. ft. of grass for two years...
...Grass. There were few Negroes who were good enough to get into white tournaments, fewer still who had the inclination to enter. But Althea was good enough-and she had the inclination. Without consulting Althea, friends suggested her for Forest Hills. The answer from U.S.L.T.A.: "We can't very well invite the girl until she makes a name for herself on grass-at Orange and East Hampton and Essex. And those tournaments are all invitational. We can't tell them who should be invited...
Unmoved, New Jersey's Maplewood Country Club refused to let Althea on its courts during the New Jersey State championship. But the Orange Lawn Tennis Club in South Orange, NJ. unbent and invited Althea to the 1950 Eastern Grass Court championships. She went, and got whipped in the second round. But she had earned her bid to Forest Hills...