Word: herding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest herd of cattle on record (80 million head) roamed the vast, greening ranges. But many packers closed down near the end of last month, or worked only part time. The reason: OPA regulations make peak production unprofitable (subsidies to non-federally inspected packers are paid only for a monthly production equal to last year...
Last week, ex-barber Frank Phillips, whose 4,000-acre ranch near Bartlesville, Okla. has a herd of bison, an artificial waterfall and a 300-man dining room, announced that he had reduced his salary to $1 a year. Reason : when his other income was taken into consideration, taxes gobbled all but $309.36 of his $50,000 salary...
...Century-Fox) is a well-ventilated, prettily colored sequel to My Friend Flicka (TIME, April 26, 1943). Its simple story (Roddy McDowall breaks and trains Thunderhead; Thunderhead runs a race, kills a wild Albino stallion that has been raising hob among the local mares and becomes king of the herd) keeps horses constantly moving in the open air, across grandiose Northwestern landscapes. Horses in motion are always cinegenic, whether or not the motion makes any other sort of sense; and a couple of fights in this picture are dramatic as well as beautiful to watch. Best performance is the Albino...
Early this winter he discovered that his herd was in the Black Hills, 45 miles from the nearest railroad. He also discovered that the buffalo is an extremely morose animal, but despite his look of ennui can dodge like a scalded cat, run up & down hills...
...spite of his experiences, Butters was still a buffalo enthusiast last week. He was planning to ship two more carloads of meat to market this winter, load the rest of his herd into railroad cars and ship them 1,000 miles to his 230-acre Michigan farm. There he hoped to dehorn them, fatten them with corn, sell 100 young animals annually for meat...