Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres pasture 24 acres woodland 13 acres corn 11 acres hay 8 acres wheat 6 acres oats, alfalfa...
...Nebraska was an open prairie. For 430 miles from east to west long undulating plains stretched out like the level wheat lands of Russia. Slow-flowing, muddy rivers ran through the plains; villages were few and far apart, travel difficult. Nebraska was a state before there were people there; in 1860 the land where Lincoln, the capital, now stands was open plain. The first settlers found a continuous, nearly flat plateau, covered with long red, shaggy grass. Buffaloes ran the plains, wallowed in hardened out water holes. The winters were hard and short, the summers hot and long. In this...
...through a thoroughgoing grilling on the witness stand by Senator James A. Reed, chief counsel for Mr. Ford. He was forced to admit that many of his farm organizations had failed, that he personally had received fees of $400,000, that he hoped some day to market the wheat of the world...
Lolling like a plush pansy on the cushioned floor of her boudoir in their suburban mansion, Mme. Clemente vents her jealousy and disapproval of Crystal's wild-honeymoons, by telling all to the newspapers. That is where the narrator comes in, as an astute young literata fresh from the wheat belt, starved for silk lingerie and articulate courtship. An editor from whose gentle, sadistic lip cigarets droop two and three at a time; a svelte social secretary from Virginia who has come through three marriages with a rope scar around her neck and a bright-haired daughter, but without rings...
...grains, and other agricultural products, the year 1927 promises to be far above normal. Next year, eight per cent more land will be planted in corn than was planted this year, and there will be an increase of six per cent in acreage of land planted in wheat. Also, next year, there will be a decrease of over 6,000,000 acres in land planted with cotton. This will be of benefit to the entire country, for in the past too much land has been used in growing cotton. Next year, according to plans, there will be an increase...