Word: cattlemen
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...Cattlemen, ready to sell their cattle at the East St. Louis stockyards for lack of feed, turned out the cattle to graze on the lush green grass which had come up in the wake of spring floods...
What made Rancher Beery, and all his neighbors, strap on their six-guns was a sudden executive order by Franklin Roosevelt, turning the entire Jackson Hole valley (221,000 acres) into a national monument, in the care of a man whom Western cattlemen loathe extraordinarily: Interior Secretary Harold Ickes...
...Western cattlemen, looking ahead for a year or so, fear a pinch sooner or later too. If they turn out to be right, the U.S. decision to upgrade the feeding habits of the world (from plain grain to grain converted to meat) will turn out to have been one of the costliest decisions of World...
...meat as possible in tins, which is not the way the U. S. is accustomed to packing it. The Argentine tins meat, but can supply the British only to the extent that the U. S. can send her tin plate (which she normally gets from Britain). Meanwhile U. S. cattlemen will not feel the new British demand until U. S. packers can get tinning capacity...
...even Don Pancho), sports a white Stetson and a buckskin watch fob. His father and grandfather before him were vaqueros of the south Texas brush country; in that country Dobie was born, 52 years ago. He spent his first 15 years in a ranch boy's intimacy with cattlemen and cattle handling, went on to college (Southwestern, Columbia) and to war. He spent 1920-21 as a ranch manager, the only white man on his uncle's 200,000 acres. But his career since then has been academic: as head of the English department at Oklahoma...