Word: harvester
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When one load of poor-grade oil burned out the engines of his customers' trucks and tractors at harvest time, Cowden decided to start mixing his own oil, took the first step toward producing his own products. In 1939, he raised $350,000 from $10 shares sold to C.C.A. members, and built a refinery. A month after the refinery went into operation, its supply of crude was shut off. Gowden raised another $120,000 from his members to help buy oil wells and pipelines for C.C.A. It now owns about 1,000 producing wells, more than 900 miles...
...fought off rescuers, and standing with famished, snapping dogs and starved, dazed cattle, insisted on hanging on to little patches of still-dry ground. Around them eddied the murky water, bearing straw from the harvest, pieces of furniture, bobbing coffins released from cemeteries. Near Rovigo, a truck loaded with refugees was swept off the highway by a jet of water from a bursting dike; 33 of 40 passengers were drowned...
...harvest being gotten in, our governor sent four men on fowling, that so -we might after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruits of our labors. These four, in one day, killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the company almost a week. At which time, amongst other recreations, we exercised our arms...
...Passage to India appeared in 1924. After it, Forster unaccountably banked the creative fires which had blazed through five crackling good novels, beginning with Where Angels Fear to Tread in 1905. Fireside chats took their place. Mostly contemplative, critical essays and reminiscences, these were first collected in Abinger Harvest, published in 1936. Two Cheers for Democracy brings the collection up to date...
Married. Jack Norworth, 72, composer (Take Me Out to the Ball Game; Shine On, Harvest Moon), oldtime vaudeville star with his second wife, Nora Bayes ; and Amy Swor, 56; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Lovington...