Word: shreveporters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shreveport's Shreve...
...last of the great State fairs of the season opened in Shreveport, La., with all attendance records broken from Minne sota to Texas. The farmers were better dressed and had more money to spend; the exhibits of farm machinery were bigger & better than ever. At Dallas the farmers, getting $100 a bale for their cotton, worried about the shortage of farm labor next year, wandered through five acres of farm machinery: green and yellow John Deere harvesters, bright red International Harvester caterpillars, the sleek slate grey of Ford Ferguson tractors. But of farm equipment, there is already a grave shortage...
...white ways to pass, for felled forest to stand again, for the buffalo to return." One windy evening in 1851 (the year the Pacific Railroad was begun and the future river pilot, Mark Twain, was 16) Henry Shreve taciturnly died. In a few decades the citizens of Shreveport, La. no longer remembered for whom their town had been named...
Meanwhile Georgie Patton at the head of the fast-stepping wheeled column had driven close to 400 miles through Texas. He swung sharp east and flung himself on the defenses at the back door of Shreveport. His 41st Armored Infantry made a pass at the Reds' airdrome, reportedly were repulsed. They also established a temporary hold on Shreveport's vital waterworks...
...stage was set at Shreveport's green-swarded Barksdale Field. Across the field and less than a mile from the spectators was a plot 2,000 feet long, 1,000 feet wide (eight big city blocks), spotted with 100 obsolete tanks, a few reconnaissance cars, patches of cardboard to represent troops. Rearing above the junk were two white pyramids, each the center of a 100-foot circle. These were the bull's-eyes for the high-altitude bombers...