Word: tryouts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the Rust brothers produced their first picking machine, in 1935, a revolution in cotton farming was forecast. But mechanical cotton culture ran into many snags, has proved much more evolutionary than revolutionary. Last week the movement passed a milestone. Near Clarksdale, Miss., where John Rust began a tryout of an improved picker, a pioneering plantation harvested the first commercial cotton crop ever produced, from planting to baling, entirely by machine...
...bought a ranch in California, could not make a go of farming. The Versailles gave him a week's tryout at $200, then quickly quintupled his salary. Grandfather Brisson...
...league baseball had just about as many players in the armed services last week as it will have in play this season-400. The American League had 203 service stars, the National 197. There had been only one death. Rookie Eugene Stack, slated for a tryout with Chicago's White Sox, was the first major leaguer drafted-Jan. 7, 1941. Two years ago he died of a heart attack after pitching a game for Fort Custer, Mich...
...Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, with the Lunts in their Broadway roles and the play's setting changed from Finland to Greece. Many Londoners, finding its tragic story too close to their own experiences, leave halfway through the play. The production had a troubled road tryout. Both Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne opened in Oxford with the flu ("It was wonderful," said Fontanne, "but like swimming under water"), eventually gave flu to the entire company. At the opening night in Glasgow there were nothing but understudies...
...those with weeping noses and stuffy heads came some hopeful news last week. While Britain was giving patulin a tryout (TIME, Nov. 29), U.S. doctors reported three successful attacks on the common cold...