Word: livestock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincere appreciation for your Feb. 14 article on the intercollegiate livestock-judging contest at Fort Worth. Those of us connected with this type of educational training for our young college men and women feel that the story will aid in a very material way in getting this type of agricultural training out to the general public. It will add prestige to the livestock-judging contest work...
While most of the current talk about capital gains concerns stock market profits, the provisions of the tax actually cover a variety of operations; e.g., proceeds from the sale of timber, profits from the sale of livestock used for breeding, draft or dairy purposes, gains from coal royalties...
...original name was the Livestock Pavilion of the No. 1-A District Agricultural Association. But a Depression-days newsman wrote bitterly: "While people are being evicted from their homes and are walking the streets, a palace for cows is being built in Visitacion Valley." Cow Palace it has been, ever since...
Cowboy Cinemactor Gene Autry galloped into Houston recently to whoop up the city's annual livestock show and rodeo. One day between performances, ol' Gene, ever alert to evil deeds on the screen, dozed off in his dressing room. While he snored, two small boys sneaked in, played with his pistols, tramped around in his fancy boots, finally slipped $112 out of Autry's diamond-studded, Texas-Ranger-badge money clip. Collared by cops, the little villains were hustled back to Autry, who awoke to drawl: "Well, I'll be doggone!" How had the lads hornswoggled...
...plus special workouts during holidays); it is as nerve-racking as a final exam, as grueling in its way as a Ph.D. oral. It is also a part of U.S. education that is duplicated nowhere else in the world. "What we're trying to teach the boys," says Livestock Expert George. Reid, "is the sense of making a sound, systematic decision. That's useful in any walk of life, but if a boy is a rancher, buying stock or buying meat, this training applies specifically...