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...from Brazil, Mexico, Ceylon and other countries complained bitterly that they needed no advice from "an American capitalist." But Hawes took their complaints in stride. "I'm only trying to be constructive," he explained. "I doubt that there are five fanners here who can get up beside a cow and milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Down with Visions | 7/9/1951 | See Source »

...because of the film's obvious earnestness and calmly informative narration, no St. Louis moviegoer has protested its plentiful shots of bare-breasted women and unadorned men or its savagely raw scenes, e.g., as a test of manhood, a young warrior taps the jugular vein of a bound cow, lets the blood flow into a gourd and gulps it down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Safari in Color | 6/11/1951 | See Source »

...keep the country quiet, so that he, his cops and his business friends can live in peace. But President Arnulfo Arias, whom Chichi restored to offi'ce 18 months ago, was not a man to let well enough alone. He built up his own secret police to cow the opposition; he made enemies by voraciously reaching for power and property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: People v. President | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...five days of the championship competition, 73 competitors roped and rode through the full rodeo schedule. The rough & tumble rides (for eight-second "eternities") on the 1,500-lb. brutish Brahmans* were matched by other wild & woolly events: bareback bronc riding, bulldogging, wild cow milking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: College Rodeo | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...milking method developed by Dairy Expert Roy R. Graves, 64, who spent 28 years in the Department of Agriculture, and John Stambaugh, a Chicago businessman and gentleman farmer. On Stambaugh's Wood-Jon farm in Valparaiso, Ind., Graves made a machine that pumps milk straight from the cow into a stainless steel vacuum tank without letting the milk come in contact with the bacteria-laden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: Canned Fresh Milk | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

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