Word: backyard
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...enlarge their stud farms. Newcomers like Cinemagnate Louis B. Mayer, Lawyer Neil McCarthy and Automan Charles S. Howard imported the best English thoroughbreds that money could buy.* Crooner Bing Crosby imported expensive South American horses. Between Los Angeles and San Francisco, 200-odd stud farms sprang up, ranging from backyard paddocks like Clark Gable's to $1,000,000 ranches like Harry Warner's-where a mountainside was moved to give his pets a whiff of ocean air. California rebuilt its breeding business into a $40,000,000-a-year industry...
...voters who had cast their ballots for him. Many were simply habitual Republican voters. Many simply disliked and distrusted Roosevelt above all else. Many a professional who had supported him was only casually concerned about anything so academic as a national issue, was far more interested in his own backyard fences...
...Ohio. Purpose: to show the rich rewards brought to the Parkinsons by the Federal Government's rural-electrification program. During the first half of Ivens' casual 36-minute report, the Parkinsons plod through their chores with such outmoded equipment as kerosene lamps, a wood-burning stove, a backyard privy, an old hand pump to the water well. One day the farmers are told about REA's cooperative units for bringing electricity to remote areas. In a nonce, poles go up, wires are strung into the farms (Voice: "long wires-there's a tune as the wind...
...first she unraveled cotton yarn herself, wound it on corncobs; later a nearby thread mill made it for her. Her backyard was full of bedspreads bleaching in the sun. On each one she made about $1.75 less the cost of materials...
...sleep-the 48 rooms of the only hotel, the Sidwell (Sleep well at the Sidwell), had been taken weeks before. First-comers moved peacefully into the private homes of Elwood, renting the rooms as the homeowners slept on the living-room floor or out on the grass in the backyard. Late arrivals drove straight to Callaway Park, where the speech was to be delivered, to be on hand for good seats in the morning, to sleep safely under blankets, under the maples, the beeches, the oaks, the bright Indiana moon...