Word: wheatfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Bob Feller was 11 he was playing with American Legion teams. Father Feller, well aware by this time that his son would justify his hopes, decided to equip him with a team of his own. He scraped a Feller wheatfield, organized a team called the Oak Views on which, when he was not pitching, young Bob Feller was the shortstop. In 1934, pitching for Oak View, Bob Feller struck out 161 adult opponents in ten games. That autumn he and his father went to the World Series. Said Bob Feller after the games: "I can do as well...
...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...