Word: grass
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Honolulu stores sold grass skirts, wooden roses and jade jewelry, while traffic honked around neighboring Piggly Wiggly stores and office buildings which looked as if they had been moved, stone by stone, from the Midwest...
...Grass Roots Survey...
...this sea of grass, Captain King and a steamboating partner, Captain Mifflin Kenedy, launched a modest cattle business. It boomed during the Civil War. They drove cattle and horses to the Confederate troops, and their steamboats, laden with cotton, ran the Union blockade. As money rolled in (at cost plus 10%) they added to their lands, then split up. (The Kenedy Ranch today adjoins the King Ranch...
...ranch's holdings up to 750,000 acres, leased 140,000 more to the corporation from his own holdings as trustee of his mother's estate plus 20,000 from outside interests in Texas. The corporation has bought and leased 10,500 acres in Pennsylvania for grass fattening of King Ranch cattle...
...Kleberg is free of the current problem of cattlemen-the sky-high price of corn for feeding. He is one of the small percentage of U.S. cattlemen who use virtually no grain. He has the vast acreage to grass-feed his cattle the year round, and his 82,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle now give as much beef as the ranch once got from 125,000 of its English breeds. He is planning to increase his herds...