Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week. As backwoods crowds gathered by the tracks at Jacksonville, Green Cove Springs, Palatka, DeLand, Kissimmee, Tampa, they went aboard to see the candidates for their favor: four heifers, one choice feed steer, one medium steer, one scrub steer, three dairy cattle, one big black Poland-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...
...Roscoe Crafton's idea. Set a-thinkin' by the national publicity given the Corn Belt's annual corn-husking championship, he got some fellow cotton merchants to form an association last winter, sow the seeds of a national cotton-picking contest. "Wide open to the world" it would be. So they sent invitations to the Cotton Belt's Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, asking them to sponsor an entrant apiece...
...Ambassador to Cuba George Messersmith delivered a final warning that no credence could be placed in protestations by "aggressive European countries" that they had no interest in the Western Hemisphere: "With its great natural wealth (it) is considered by these States as their ultimate conquest. . . . They are prepared to sow discord between the States as well as within the States by raising every internal question on which there may be differences." But, said the Ambassador, the American States, with the example of Europe before them, would not be misled "either by fair promises or by threats of force...