Word: bartons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Happy was the Interior Department last month when Stanford W. Barton offered to undertake the biggest Indian land development of all time. The friendly Missourian, a dabbler in uranium and alfalfa, was a godsend to the Indian Affairs Bureau officials. They signed him up just one day before expiration of an act enabling Interior to lease 67,000 parched Arizona acres with the expectation of turning them into a desert garden for some 1,500 Mojave and Chemehuevi tribesmen, who would get the land back in 25 years. As first installment on the $28 million deal, which promised handsome profits...
...Interior last week when the waste of its haste came to light. Barton's check had bounced; his $40,000 on deposit in a Blytheville (Ark.) bank had been withdrawn. Barton blandly explained this oddity: his brother, who disapproved of the deal when he turned over the check, had done the withdrawing from their joint account. But he could not explain away the fact that Seaboard Surety Co., which Barton had claimed would put up the bond, had no plans to do so at all. Unlike Interior, Seaboard had requested proof of Barton's financial responsibility, which...
HUGE FARM AREA will be created along Colorado River in southwestern Arizona, where Real Estateman Stanley W. Barton made deal with Interior Department to transform 67,000 parched acres of Indian reservation into desert garden. In history's biggest lease of Indian lands for agricultural development, Barton will spend about $28 million to complete an irrigating system, also develop industrial and residential sites. Reservation's 1,400 Indians will get jobs, and much improved land will revert to them in 20 to 25 years...
...Digest: "It is entirely possible to manufacture filter tips much more efficient than any now on the market." They 1) "would cost no more to produce," and 2) would give smokers "a significant reduction in cancer risk" (see MEDICINE). Last week, after 18 years, Manhattan's Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn dropped the Digest's advertising account (1956 budget: $1,500,000). Explanation: a "conflict of interest" with one of BBDO's biggest accounts, American Tobacco's Lucky Strike and Hit Parade (1956 budget: $17 million...
...News. Nonetheless, Citizen staffers (who have been promised union contracts) are confident that a progressive, middle-of-the-road Republican paper modeled faithfully on the oldtime News cannot fail. "If we can't survive with the kind of help everyone is giving us," said Editor Barton, "then we're just poor newspapermen...