Word: grass
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superhighway ever completed at one time; of all the major postwar U.S. turnpike projects, it is the first ever finished entirely on schedule and within its cost estimates. Unexpectedly, the Turnpike Commission ended up with money to spare, although construction ran to $1,350,000 per mile (seeding grass alone cost...
That summer of 1910, at the age of 20, he signed on at $75 a month as an out fielder for a bush-league club in Kankakee. Ill. In July the league folded. Not Casey. He moved to Maysville, Ky., in the Blue Grass League. He was in base ball for life...
Despite such optimistic notes, politicos and farm organizations are mulling more than half a dozen new plans to help the farmer, including Secretary Benson's plan to take 40 million acres out of production by paying farmers some $500 million a year to plant grass and cover crops rather than commercial crops. Farm economists were quick to point out that this plan, like almost all farm plans, has a loophole for farmers. Farmers could graze cattle on the idle land, and by increasing beef production would put a downward pressure on beef prices...
...races were run on a one-third macadam, two-thirds grass course which encircles the Franklin Park golf course. Several times during the meet McCurdy would hurry across the green to strategic points, where he advised his charges of their position, urging some on, and advising others to hold their places...
...surplus products cut back, if Agriculture Secretary Benson can persuade Congress to okay a mammoth new crop-control program that may cost as much as $500 million a year. Benson wants to buttress present flexible price supports by paying farmers $10 to $12 an acre yearly to grow grass, cover crops and trees on their land, thus cut down on overall farm output by taking 40 million acres out of food production...