Word: pined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...China sow, eight pigs. Except for the scrub steer (brought along as a horrible example), all were sleek, handsome, groomed within an inch of their lives. Sharing their train were exhibits of various grasses, seed corn, peanuts, fencing methods ("Keep Ferdinand a Sissy with a Strong Fence"), poultry charts, pine seedlings, pruning tools, turpentining operations. While a sound truck played hillbilly music near the tracks, thousands of Florida farmers, black & white, marched through the train...
...bales); 500,000 bushels of wheat (current production 792,332,000 bushels, surplus 250,000,000); 700,000 bushels of soybeans (81,541,000 bushels grown this year); 500,000 bushels of corn (ten-year average yield 2,299,342,000 bushels); lesser amounts of hides, lard, glue, pine pitch, sugar-cane alcohol and flax. Imported materials would be cork, rubber, tung oil and ramie, Egyptian mummy-wrapping fibre. Best of all, wheat, corn and soybeans are interchangeable. Ford can use all three, or only...
...himself into the proper mood by donning such lavish haberdashery as forest-green gabardine riding costumes, bows to no stickler for technical accuracy. A thousand volumes were probed in research for North West Mounted Police. A "mounty" was imported to drill a squadron of extras. A forest of 400 pine trees, requiring a State fire warden, converted six acres of the Paramount lot into rugged backwoods. This earnest devotion to accuracy left little time for comedy, suspense and other standbys of good swashbuckling melodrama...
...bird alighted last week. It carried the Navy's crinkle-eyed Air Chief Jack Tow ers. Startled alligators gave the spot a wide berth. Less than a twelvemonth before, the bend had been a National Guard camp in typical northern Florida terrain -flat, sandy, scraggly with pine. Last week, six months ahead of schedule, it was a $15,000,000 naval air base, combed, brushed and parted with runways, hang ars, shops and barracks. The airborne Navy visitors looked on the Navy's handi work and found it good. There were a few speeches, the flag...
...Deal" and the "Willkie Crusade" each sent two ardent representatives to Wellesley yesterday afternoon to convince the denizens of Pine Manor to vote the right way in a debate sponsored by the gals' International Relations Club...