Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Beneath a brazier sun green pastures, fresh corn lands, lush gardens from Virginia to Kansas turned brown and sere. The Potomac, Ohio and Mississippi rivers dwindled to a sluggish standstill. Corn wilted away on stunted stalks. Grass shrivelled up before it could be hayed. Live stock, famished for feed and water, was hustled to slaughter before it died. Fruit and truck rotted. Catastrophe was upon a million farm families...
Fortnight ago in the finals of the Metropolitan Grass Court Championship in Brooklyn, Ellsworth Vines, 18, unknown, beat Francis T. Hunter, second ranking U. S. player. Entering last week the annual invitation tournament of the Sea Bright, N. J. Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club ?a tournament which has become regarded as a more important sign-pointer for the national than any other mid-season event ? Ellsworth Vines was no longer unknown. People had learned about him ? that his father owns a chain of Pacific Coast meat stores, that he began playing when he was six and was later...
...floodlights poured metallic glare over a baseball field under a pitchblack sky and the Cincinnati "Reds" played an exhibition game with the Indianapolis "Indians." It was the first night game ever played by a major league team. The lights turned the field to a vividly unreal color, like grass in a postcard, against which the figures of the players stood out sharply three-dimensional. Both teams were hitting well but the red-legged fielders were uncertain judging distances and fumbled. In the fourth Bob Meusel struck out with the bases full. Cincinnati was leading in the last half...
...named Drake de Lanoy and John N. Ledbetter. They had started using cottonseed hulls for miniature indoor courses, had likewise been pounced upon, by one Thomas M. Fairborn, golfing cottongrower from Mexico. Thomas M. Fairborn built a full-sized course on his plantation, had been annoyed by the way grass greens withered and sand greens blew away. He had observed that cottonseed hulls made smooth paths through the plantation, tried them for greens. Nobody pounced upon him. So he patented the idea, now sits atop the patent pyramid. The reason why Mr. Carter sold for only...
...opened their campaign at Hastings, Neb. The thermometer stood at 100°. Declared Chairman Legge: "A 25% reduction [in wheat acreage] will put production on a domestic basis. Reduce the acreage of wheat, without regard to what is done with the land thus released. You can put this land into grass for the benefit of your children. Do anything with it but don't raise wheat on it. ... If a great majority of producers could act collectively, adjustment in production becomes easy...