Word: mammoths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tight-lipped businessman named Albert Houston from Chatham, Ont. had tramped from farm to farm buying used tractors. When he had 69, he slapped on some fresh paint, took them to Yorkton, Sask. In newspapers and on telephone-pole posters he advertised a "Mammoth Auction Sale of Farm Machinery." Not until the day before the auction did Yorkton's 5,577 people know what they were in for. Some 10,000 tractor-hungry farmers, their pockets bulging with cash, arrived from all over the prairies. When all the rooms in Yorkton's three hotels were snapped up, empty...
...Hair. But Reutherites were not dismayed. They buttonholed delegates along the Boardwalk, in restaurants, bars, hotel rooms. So did Thomasites. In the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel Reutherites and Thomasites came to blows. In the Ambassador Hotel, half a dozen mixed-up Reutherites fell upon one another, upsetting a mammoth potted palm. Three delegates from South Bend bounded from bar to bar, doing a buck & wing and chanting "Reuther, -Reuther, rah, rah, rah!" Boardwalk concessionaires, who had never seen anything quite like it, consoled themselves by clipping delegates 75^ for a bottle of beer...
Pressagent Russell Birdwell got in early with a stop-the-atom-bomb-test editorial for which the Military Order of the Purple Heart bought the space, giving Copywriter Birdwell a mammoth byline. Headline: WHERE ARE WE GOING? Hapless newspaper and magazine executives only wished they knew...
...Mammoth in the Bull Ring. The existence of human life in the southwestern U.S. during the late glacial period was confirmed in 1927 with the discovery at Folsom, N.M. of chipped stone "Folsom points" between the fossilized ribs of an extinct bison. Ever since, archaeologists speculated whether "Folsom man," following the herds of bison, horses and mammoths, had migrated south. The first shred of evidence that he might have was a fossilized mammoth tusk turned up last summer in the excavation for Mexico City's new bull ring. The tusk bore a deep incision which, said the archaeologists, might...
...farming is no business for amateurs, G.I.s or otherwise. Lean, blond Peter Farrell Hudson, 36, medically discharged from the Army a year ago, disregarded such warnings. He settled in Nebraska's rolling North Platte valley, good land for wheat, corn and oats, dreamed of changing it into one mammoth, highly profitable truck garden. But Hudson had no luck when he tried to get a loan under the G.I. bill to start farming. Finally defeated by red tape, he went to work for the Union Pacific as a brakeman at $450 a month. His wife Helen...