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...administration was the nearby Department of Agriculture Building. It was equipped with the sort of mural that Congressional committees had been approving for Federal buildings since the British burned the U. S. Capitol: A great rectangle showing a number of buxom ladies swathed in cheesecloth, standing about a wheatfield (TIME, April 2, 1934). Its painter was Gilbert White, a long-haired U. S. expatriate. Young New Dealers did not like that picture. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace tried hard to have it removed, found that he could not, finally attached to the bottom a small plate: "Approved in 1932 by Andrew...
...launching this week, 100,000 people from all over the United Kingdom were headed for Clydebank. Grandstands seating 16,000 have been erected in a wheatfield opposite the shipyard. More than 1,000 invited guests will view the ceremony from the Anchor liner Tuscania, berthed at an adjacent dock. The Clyde steamers Queen Mary and King George will hold another 1,000. Microphones will carry the ceremony to every country in the world. What name No. 534 will bear the world will not know for sure until Her Majesty raises her voice to cry: "I christen thee...
Incidentally, just outside Moorhead a playful twister tossed The Empire Builder, crack transcontinental flier, in a wheatfield recently...
...problems. Thence the President proceeded to Denver, to Alaska and then to California where he died in a hotel, a month after being in the wheat field. . . . Last week, Hutchinson, assisted by some 300 newspaper editors on their way to a convention in Los Angeles, dedicated in the same wheatfield a shaft of granite, bought with schoolchildren's pennies, to record for the granite's lifetime that Hutchinson had well loved Mr. Harding, who had once reaped a fraction of that field...
...hero of a Hutchinson, Kan., wheatfield...