Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anyone could guess. Less than two miles from North Beach stand the spindling 700-foot Trylon and the great round Perisphere of the New York World's Fair 1939. A thick slice of premium revenue will undoubtedly go to the transportation system that can pick up the sightseer at his home airport and deposit him in the shadow of the World's Fair's Big Apple...
...some 20,000 Republicans in Idaho to have voted in the Democratic primary to nominate Representative D. Worth Clark over New Dealish Senator James P. Pope (TIME, Aug. 22). Such crossing of party lines, he said, defeated the purpose of the primary system, because members of one party could pick puny opponents for their own party's candidates to beat. As in Idaho, it would be "immoral" for Republicans in Maryland to help his enemy Senator Tydings defeat his friend Representative Lewis;-* and for Republicans in Georgia to help his enemy Senator George defeat his friend Lawrence Sabyllia Camp...
...pioneers in the old West, there seemed to be land enough for everybody. So, too, to radio pioneers there seemed to be wave lengths enough for all comers. Firstcomers, who had their pick, staked out their claims on the easy frequencies, the most readily exploitable wave lengths. Ultrashort waves (frequencies of 30,000 kilocycles and higher) were the wasteland. It was known that they were reliably effective only as far as the horizon, a paltry range for services which sought to blanket the whole earth...
Backfield No Cinch to Pick...
Chicago -- Washington's Redskins, world professional champions, tonight were 2 to 1 favorites to defeat the pick of 1937 college elevens in the fifth annual charity football game under the floodlights in Soldiers Field...