Word: spreader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sabetha, Kans., County Attorney James McClain, 31, launched his campaign for governor and repeal of the state's dry law with a parade of farm trucks and equipment. (Sign on a manure spreader: "We'll spread McClain over Kansas...
Each week, four contestants-usually three men and one woman-answer questions about farm life. Samples: "Why is butter yellower in summer than in winter?" "'Why are barns painted red?"* Prizes, as in most quiz programs, are lavish, but they are also practical: a manure spreader, an automatic shotgun, a ten-year supply of overalls (40 pairs), a milking machine. Contributors of questions used get a $50 gift certificate with a mail-order catalogue...
...summer, Congress' Republican majority rammed a frog down the throat of the "Voice of America," and left it croaking. The Voice is the short-wave radio section of the State Department's Office of International Information and Cultural Affairs. Suspicious that OIC might be as much a spreader of Democratic propaganda as the democratic way of life, Congress lopped 40% from its requested appropriation, gave it only $12.4 million to operate on this year...
...eight knots, at a cost of three jib sheets. With heavy seas still running at dawn and the boat heeling at 45°, Co-Owner Ernie Grates took a sailor's chance: to save a spar, he shinnied 50 perilous feet aloft to replace lost pins in a spreader. (Co-Owner Murray Knapp, who is cook and bottle washer, distinguished himself by being beaned with a flying frying...
...Superman" Sydnor, spreader of much gossip, is maintaining a vigilant watch at his window near a local club Waiting for Winter...