Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmers in the old Kansas-Nebraska-Oklahoma-Colorado dust bowl were worrying about a lack of wheat, not a surplus. In the last fortnight, storms have again covered farms in the drought-stricken bowl with blankets of dust. Colorado's Republican Governor Dan Thornton pointed out that there would be no dust bowl if good grazing lands, anchored by tough, tangled grass roots, had not been plowed up to plant wheat under the incentive of Government-supported high prices. Said he: "High prices guaranteed for wheat have ... led to plowing up . . . land which never should have been cultivated...
...down from the days when all male students were military students and all students were male. The name derived from the Louisiana Tigers of the Civil War, with which Colonel David French Boyd, the second president of the university, had been affiliated during the war. The name started with Wheat's Tigers,* who had fought themselves to extinction by 1862, but it became the legacy of all the Louisiana fighting...
...Wheat's Tigers decorated their campaign hats with pictures of tigers in action and appropriate motto, such as "Tiger Ready for the Kill," "Old Man Tiger," "Tiger on the Leap." In action they screamed and roared, and their specialty was creeping silent as cats undercover until they were on the enemy, then charging with wild leaps and wilder yells and long, sharp knives...
...Named for Major Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, who. after a rousing military career in various Latin American and Italian wars, returned home at the outbreak of the Civil War, recruited a 5OO-man cavalry battalion called the "Louisiana Tigers," which made a brilliant showing from the first Battle of Bull Run until Wheat's death at the battle of Gaines's Mill in 1862. He fell with a bullet through his head, crying: "Bury me on the field, boys...
...pleasure and squeals of outrage. Just about 50% of Athlyn's 2,000 sent in their ballots. Day after day, the News breathlessly reported the latest tabulations. Thirty-five of Chicago's hostesses were nominated, and even Mammy Yokum, of Dogpatch, received six votes. The old Chicago wheat-pit spirit raised its head. Laughed International Harvester Director Chauncey McCormick: "I've been offering a dollar apiece for votes for my wife, but I heard Ed Cudahy is offering $1.25, so I'm upping my offer...