Word: downes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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South of the border down Mexico Way.
On the main line from Cheyenne to Denver, where the cow-country meets the mountains, lies the brisk Colorado city of Greeley. Into Greeley with a flivver-pulled trailer in the fall of 1930 steamed one Elzy Alumbaugh ("Buzz") Hoover, 28, husky, square-cut, leather-lunged, with a diploma from...
Last week this same Buzz Hoover was packing to pull out of Greeley on a streamliner for a vacation, after the busiest season his Greeley Cash Auction Market has ever had. Sales were running some 60% better than 1938's $1,000,000-plus, and on sales Buzz Hoover...
More than 7,000,000 U. S. citizens took out hunting licenses this year. Last week, with the first frost on the pumpkin, farmers took down their cherished fowling-pieces, bankers assembled their shiny shotguns and the army of U. S. hunters took to the woods, the marshes and the...
Hopping mad, Bill Cunningham went back to the office to write a blistering story about Stefansson. On the way, his wife handed him some sheets of paper. It was the interview, taken down in shorthand behind the explorer's back. Bill had not known his wife could take shorthand...