Word: cattlemen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer Sula Valley cattlemen had burned extra candles to the Virgin, and had spoken bluntly to their patron saint. Such measures had once been credited with bringing 100 inches of rain a year, but since January only five inches had fallen. Shoulder-high grass turned brown, and the scrawny, tick-infested cattle fell dead of starvation...
...weeks ago, to clear itself of the charge, the company made the cattlemen an offer: "We will either stop making rain altogether or try to make rain over your part of the valley, as you choose." The cattlemen chose rain. Last week Pilot Silverthorne gave it to them. Spotting a likely cloud, he hopped into his Lockheed Lodestar, let go with a single Dry Ice pellet fired from a Very pistol. Within three hours, an inch and a half of rain had turned San Pedro's dusty streets into bogs. Bragged Texan Silverthorne: "Say the word...
...cotton growers, oilmen and cattlemen of the Lower Rio Grande, it was as historic a moment as the coming of the railroads. Through the waterway, freight barges could be towed all the way from Brownsville, Tex. to Florida-1,116 miles -without exposure to the open sea. Cried one Texan: "A shining strand linking together those jewels of progress into a fabulous necklace along the curving bosom of the Gulf...
...Some cattlemen are attacking coyotes too; they claim that coyotes are killing calves at a rate that has become serious. The highly bred modern cow cannot defend her calf as the thin, stringy and wild range cows once...
...three scientific research foundations. One of the foundations has worked out a new construction technique which Slick thinks might revolutionize the building industry; another has figured out a new method of artificial insemination which will permit scrub cattle to give birth to purebreds. All Texans-from college presidents to cattlemen-took their abundant energy and confidence for granted. Dallas Banker Bob Thornton had an explanation for it. Said he: "Energy is mostly habit. Take the way people in Dallas walk. Why, in St. Louis I trip over everybody, they walk so slow. That's what's wrong with...