Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wheat bins are groaning with their greatest harvest in history: 687,923,000 bu. Estimated value of 1952 field crops: $1.9 billion...
...nation's top dozen prep schools. It began in 1912, with $2,170,000 left by five childless members of a wealthy Windsor family named Loomis, who wanted to found a place for students of all races and religions-"that some good may come to posterity from the harvest, poor though it may be, of our lives." Under the first headmaster, Nathaniel Batchelder, the good came quickly. He boosted enrollments from 67 to 320, built a $1,500,000 campus, saw his endowment grow to over $3,000,000, Over the years, Loomis began to get a goodly share...
Since mid-September, Elmer has done his act over & over for the benefit of farmers in Italy, France and Holland, all of which are increasing their corn crop, to save import dollars. MSA figured that the farmers could raise even more if they learned to harvest in the traditional U.S. style instead of lugging each ear home to be stripped at a husking bee around the family hearth...
Died. Susan Peters, 31, cinemactress whose budding career (Random Harvest, Song of Russia) was cut short in 1945 when she accidentally shot herself while on a hunting trip with her cinemactor-husband Richard Quine; in Visalia, Calif. Paralyzed from the waist down, she tried a film comeback (The Sign of the Ram) playing the part of a cripple, later toured in stage plays (The Glass Menagerie, The Barretts of Wimpole Street) that could be acted from a wheelchair or a couch. Her doctor gave the "primary cause" of death as a chronic kidney ailment and bronchial pneumonia, added "I felt...
...They Got Married. Pa was a rebel, who had marched with Coxey's Army, and boomed about the docks, harvest fields and foundries of the U.S., indulging his love of fisticuffs and agitating for the union shop. Ma, who had worked as a nursemaid for a rich Cleveland family (and named four of her children after theirs before Pa caught on), yearned for respectability. Ma always said she had married Pa against her better judgment: "That man . . . wouldn't take no for an answer." Pa's story was a little different. "I was keeping company with your...