Word: grounds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Farmer O. H. Thrasher and his 4,000 turkeys were in great demand last week around Torrington, Wyo. Because turkeys dote on grasshoppers, Farmer Thrasher's neighbors gladly waived normal objections to strayed or visiting flocks, begged the honor of his birds' attendance at dinner on the ground. So hearty was the welcome, so vast the offered meal, that Farmer Thrasher got up a rolling roost, trucked his capacious hens and gobblers from ranch to ranch...
...crop damage was estimated at $30,000,000. In the Dakotas, the visitation was the worst in a long roll of such visitations (topped, since the 1880s by the Great Swarm of 1937). Iowa was not so badly off, because spring rains had killed the eggs deposited in the ground by last year's females. But matters might have been worse: a good year for crops is a good year for weeds, and grasshoppers do not have to concentrate on crops alone...
...hard cash reserves, leaving Rumania holding German promises to pay. This game the Nazis have been playing all over southeastern Europe and in Latin America for several years. Said Viitorul: "We cannot afford to tie ourselves solely to Germany, wherefore we welcome Britain's efforts to gain ground...
This neighborhood is the stamping ground of Alfred Cohen. Alfred is a small, blond, wiry eight-year-old boy who lives with his parents and an older brother and sister on the fifth floor of a walk-up apartment house. Directly across the street is Bronx House, where there is a dance every Wednesday night, where the dramatic club occasionally puts on shows like H.M.S. Pinafore, where the free art class of the Federal Art Project meets daily...
...hour after hour, as she crossed the Atlantic, the Hughes plane's KHBRC signal thundered down the ship's wake into Ground Radio Chief Charles Perrine's receivers at Flushing, L. I. In the plane, Radio Engineer Richard R. Stoddart adjusted the length of the trailing antenna, controlled at will the direction of the radio beam he was transmitting. He had achieved in the design of his transmitter an efficiency formerly impossible in airplane radio...