Word: buying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some 500 U. S. & Canadian cowboys have chosen rodeoing as a career-well aware that in an arena they may make more money in 60 seconds than they can make in a year on the range. Besides, they can buy fancy shirts and see the world. Last week, after nine months of jogging around-to Salinas, Pendleton, Cheyenne, Calgary and scores of lesser roundups-the cream of the professional cowpunchers gathered in the midst of Manhattan's skyscrapers for the climax of the season: the 14th annual World Series Rodeo in Madison Square Garden-26 days...
...poker, spends his two months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have to do is let them have their...
...Louisiana State University seemed the answer to a collegian's dream. Upon his students the Kingfish lavished two luxurious athletic stadia, a huge gymnasium, a mammoth coliseum, the longest U. S. swimming pool, 100 grand pianos, the best football team and the biggest band that money could buy. Fabulous were the parties and the football junkets he threw for L. S. U. students. Long, his L. S. U. president, James Monroe Smith, his hand-picked trustees and his legislators thrust scholarships upon them (last year 1,000 of L. S. U.'s 8,550 students were...
...Clarence Dillon wanted to sell the automobile company bought four years before by Dillon, Read & Co. from the widows of Motormakers John and Horace Dodge. Walter P. Chrysler, as expert a machinist as ever stood at a lathe, as smart a trader as ever swapped a horse, wanted to buy...
...Onetime roundhouse sweeper Walter Chrysler, who had left the presidency of Buick ($500,000 a year) to retire at 44 from an industry that wouldn't let him quit, who had later founded blazing Chrysler Corp. on the ashes of the dying Maxwell-Chalmers fire, had agreed to buy Dodge. The price suited Walter Chrysler, right down to the ground: $170,000,000 in new Chrysler stock. Without turning over a penny of cash Chrysler Corp. had taken over all the floor space and forge and foundry facilities it needed to drive from No. 5 in the industry...