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Meanwhile, the hacendados (estate owners), who once were undisputed masters of million-acre game preserves and cattle ranches, have been displaced from the top of the social pyramid by a new elite of rich cosmopolitan entrepreneurs and a growing middle class. Mexico City's Bernardo Quintana, for example, built the...
After cutting down fences to enter the 715-acre plant site, protesters will not commit any acts of violence or destroy any property, Bittone said.
Every good ole Texas boy dreams of having cattle, money and power. As he sits in front of the stately stone main house on his 10,000-acre ranch, Picosa, near his birthplace, with cicadas chirping hi the spotlighted trees and the lush coastal Bermuda grass, the last of these...
Ludwig's fortune is based on foresight; after World War II, he built the first supertanker in Japan and devised the means to finance ships through long-term charters. Recalls a former aide: "Often he just sits in his office and thinks three or five years down the road...
> Republican James Leach drove out into the cornfields in his district in southeastern Iowa. He stopped at the home of Merle Glenney, who coaxed the Congressman into a pickup truck for a tour of his farm. Glenney urged Leach to seek lower inheritance taxes on farms that pass from one...