Word: wheatland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...torn up to harvest a onetime-only crop of coal if the land cannot be returned to its original use. Farmer Harold Oberlander of New England, N. Dak., had an experience that has been repeated many times elsewhere. When he came home from his 2,000 acres of wheatland one day last year, a coal-leasing agent offered him a down payment of $10,000 cash, plus royalties on the coal eventually to be mined, if he would sign on the dotted line. It could have been the easiest money Oberlander had ever seen, but he refused...
Scruggs. The first time I saw Earl and Family was exactly four years ago, in back of a rural high school, right before the fireworks came on and sometime after the vegetable awards. It was the Wheatland! Sesquicentennial or Octo-something, a real celebration. People kept running up to the microphone and yelling "Let's hear it Three cheers for Whestland!" Meanwhile the local officer of the law--clearly the big man in town--was strolling around as everybody said hello Bill, he being an uncle or cousin to most of them. The Scruggs Revue was definitely the high point...
...Wheatland's problem is a common one among instrument collectors. Sundials, astrolabes, globes, telescopes, and microscopes are old favorites with antique buyers who admire the shiny brasswork, wax the basswood, and wonder what the gorgeous object was ever used for. While the stiff bidding of these amateur antiquaries has made much of Harvard's collection too valuable to risk exhibiting, their uneducated enthusiasm has depressed its worth in the marketplace of ideas. It is scarcely surprising, with more interior decorators than scientists in the field, that scientific artifacts do not attract any significant number of scrupulous scholars. --From an account...
...them in meadow green, wheatland yellow, marine blue, firebolt orange, spruce green, grapefruit yellow, classic bronze and crimson red. They have power-operated sun roofs, bucket seats, air conditioning. Some even have beds, refrigerator, toilet. These are the new amenities on the lowly old truck, which is propelling Detroit into a truck-making boom...