Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newsprint. The Great Northern Paper Co., which produces 34% of the newsprint made in the U.S., announced that it has found a cheap way to make newsprint from hardwood, a trick no other papermaker has been able to perform. Up till now, newsprint has been made from softwood. Great Northern, which owns 14% of Maine's land, including 800,000 acres of hardwood, plans to spend $32 million to expand and to install the new process, boosting its present newsprint production of 377,000 tons a year...
Brown, prominent theatre critic and chairman of the committee set up last year to investigate the possibility of a theatre at Harvard, said, "There's not a nickel in the till right now. But I swear this is not an abandoned cause...
When only eight men had responded by the original Saturday deadline, the Council extended the time limit for petitions to the ten-man committee till yesterday...
...months after he had seized power last spring, Cuba's Dictator Fulgencio Batista magnanimously proclaimed that "free and fair elections" for the presidency would be held in November 1953. Last week the strong man changed his mind. His government announced that no elections will be held till June 1954, when a new congress will be chosen. The Congressmen will then decide when Cubans may vote on the presidency...
John Wort had not driven the race himself: he got Elaine Heap to do the job-the championship needed someone "younger and stronger-armed." But he was still the happiest man in Jackson. That night the Silver Dollar Bar was busy till 3 a.m., and free drinks went to all who could get up to the bar. Said grinning Owner Wort: "I've been working for this for ten years. It means as much to me as having the winning horse in the Santa Anita Derby-maybe more...