Word: wheatland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good for the Country." Near Ford, Kans., 37-year-old Dale Steele, who farms 5,000 acres of wheatland, ruefully counted up what the 90? drop in wheat meant to him. Said he: "I've lost $54,000 in the last few days. That's more money than I was worth in 1940. But I figure it's just a paper loss. We haven't been killed, just wounded...
Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland...
...imports, at $1,900,000,000. The bulk of the trade was with the U.S. Canada entertained 20,000,000 U.S. tourists who spent $200,000,000 (up $40,000,000 from the year before). In 1946, some 418,000,000 bushels of grain from Canada's lush wheatland, some 1,250,000,000 lbs. of fish from her coasts, plus vast amounts of beef, pork, oats, barley, had helped feed Canada and the hungry world...
...Stephen Wheatland...
...David P. Wheatland...