Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sky was bright over Kansas last week. At Lawrence, the University of Kansas campus glittered with students' new cars. Never before had Lawrence seen so many convertibles and custom jobs; never before had there been such traffic jams. A glimpse at license plates told Kansans where most of the shiny cars came from-the rich western wheat counties. Kenneth Richardson, a 24-year-old student, told how he got his green 1947 Buick convertible: "During the summer I hired a crew for two combines and folowed the wheat harvest from Oklahoma to Canada. We made plenty...
...farmer was spending his money wisely. The bright sky might be the limit for what some would pay for a tractor or slightly used auto on the black market. But most of the farmers' spending was going into better living-running water, bathrooms, electricity and appliances, kitchen labor-savers. Nothing was too good; some farmers were buying airplanes and putting landing strips in their fields. Kansans were reaching for more land, as they always had in prosperous times. But now they were paying mostly cash; Kansans remember all too well the disasters of mortgage foreclosures in the early...
Planting Time. It had been a whopping year. But in a literal sense, the sky might turn out to be the limit of such prosperity. It was much too bright. Last week was two weeks past the time to plant winter wheat, but the soil was hard and dry; there was little of the subsoil moisture that makes for banner crops. The last good sod-soaking rain had been in September's first week. From the north Texas and Oklahoma wheat plains came disturbing news: planting was far behind schedule; some farmers were seeding dusty fields. There were...
First prize ($2,500) went to one of the few bright spots: a tall, rainbow-colored patchwork of windows against a night sky. It had been painted by an unknown, 34-year-old Philadelphian named Henry Kallem, who submitted it without much expectation of winning a prize. Like last year's prizewinning What Atomic War Will Do to You, Kallem's half-abstract canvas bore a socially conscious title: Country Tenement. Explained Kallem: "My idea was to show how I felt seeing this scene one evening in the country-all the people crowded into one building with...
...about a month, the disc will go by truck to Mt. Palomar, 130 miles away. There the glass will be covered with a thin film of shiny aluminum and set in the telescope. Some night in the spring or summer of 1948 it will stare up at the sky as man's farthest-seeing...