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Earlier this month 500-h.p. diesel tractors, brand-named Big Bud 525 and Steiger Panther, pushed 60-ft.-wide chisel plows into the gentle prairie around the hamlet of Winnett, Mont., quickly transforming what once was Wayne Bratten's 28,000-acre ranch into a raw wound of overturned earth. Eastern Colorado Wheat Farmer Emmett Linnebur became a part owner of the Crow Rock Ranch near Miles City, Mont., and used a fleet of ten supertractors to tear into 50,000 of its acres for wheat planting. In recent years, tractors have bulldozed some 6.4 million acres of marginal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carving Out a New Dust Bowl | 6/27/1983 | See Source »

Trim and suntanned, Walton is a 1940 graduate of the University of Missouri and worked for J.C. Penney briefly before World War II military service. He and his brother Bud, now a senior vice president, opened the first Wal-Mart Discount City in Rogers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small-Town Hit | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

Initially, Berger's storyline seems to have been teased out of a W.C. Fields film like The Bank Dick. Hornbeck's Dolf Beeler, "a burly, beer-bellied foreman," enters Bud Bullard's Millville hardware store for a can of paint remover. The dead cigar butt in Beeler's mouth leads to an argument about smoking on premises stocked with flammable merchandise. The appearance of Bullard's cousin Reverton is a piece of unfortunate timing. Rev is a bitter geezer who lies about being a railroad detective and carries a starter pistol to intimidate his enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millvillers and Hornbeckers | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...This is the most significant disciplinary action we've taken with a fraternity in the last 20 years," said Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Affairs Bud Travers. The Daily Californian

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Frat Banned | 5/11/1983 | See Source »

...people are very excited." Haggerty says proudly And as Mayor "Bud" claims, "Hockey's the number one sport out here in fact it's the only sport and we take it very seriously." In fact says Wessman it "is the biggest thing that's happened to Grand Forks in many years...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: The Biggest Show in Town | 3/25/1983 | See Source »

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