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Even Texans are impressed at the size of the 800,000-acre Matador Ranch, second only to the King Ranch (950,000 acres) in the U.S. Matador is so big that a cowboy can ride 56 miles without leaving the main ranch; its roundup goes on all the year round. Matador had another distinction: it was not controlled by Texans, but by thrifty Scotsmen in Dundee...
...stockholders made a fat profit. During eight months of negotiations, the stock shot up in London and the U.S. from $7 a share to nearly $28. Lazard Bros, said a "number of American corporations" were in with it on the $19 million deal. Although it has already signed up Matador's top ranch executives to run the cattle empire, the gossip is that Lazard eventually plans to break up Matador into separate companies and try to sell off the huge land holdings...
Buffalo Hunt. The site of Matador's main ranch in the Panhandle between Fort Worth and Amarillo was a buffalo hunters' camp when Henry ("Paint") Campbell, an old trail driver, bought the land in 1878. Within four years, he expanded the ranch to 1,500,000 acres and 40,000 head of cattle, sold out to a Scottish syndicate for $1,250,000. As Matador's manager, the new owners later chose Murdo Mackenzie, a strapping (6 ft. I in.) Scotsman who became a legendary figure in the West. Old Murdo never carried...
Mackenzie built Matador's stock to what proud Matador hands called "the world's finest" herd of Herefords. He once said: "If we can obtain a bull that will add 10? a head to the price of Matadors over a period of years, there is no price too great for us to pay." For Murdo, work was an obsession. "I can't see why men would play golf when they can work," he said...
Though she is already hotly pursued by the greatest matador in all Spain and engaged to the world's fastest auto-racer, Ava feels drawn to the mysterious stranger. At length, while an ominous soundtrack narrator keeps describing what is all too visible on the screen, and the camera catches some revealing glimpses of Ava swimming out to his anchored ship, the picture's catchall plots bring selfish Ava to the point where she will gladly give her life for love of him. But Mason loves her too much to let her do it. Another flick of Omar...