Word: montana
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Cattlemen in Kansas and Missouri are selling off their herds because of burnt pastures and a shortage of feed. Farther north, the Dakotas and eastern Montana have been enduring a drought for almost a year. In Montana, range lands were devastated, and crop losses were estimated at up to 90%. Worst off: winter and spring wheat, barley, oats...
...Henry Van Dyke's interminable America for Me* and quoted Thomas Jefferson and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Finally, the speeches were over, and Reagan's name was put in nomination by his old friend Laxalt. The nomination was seconded by several people, and then the states began casting their ballots. Montana's 20 votes pushed Reagan's total above the 998 that he needed for the nomination, and pandemonium broke out. Some 12,000 red-white-and-blue balloons, which dozens of volunteers had spent nine hours blowing up, dropped from the ceiling as Manny Harmon's Convention Orchestra played Sousa...
...latest tactic against the fungus pits bug against bug. Plant Pathologist Gary Strobel at Montana State University has been injecting pseudomonad bacteria into infected trees: the microbes multiply and attack the fungus. Strobel's program is still in the experimental stage, but there have been some modestly promising results. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for instance, injections were given to 20 badly diseased trees; seven were saved...
Bronco Billy McCoy, shoe salesman and excon late of New Jersey, drives a panel truck and ambles through Idaho and Montana in search of friendly territory. Billy and his motley crew--a doctor without a doctor's license, an Indian who plays with rattlesnakes and a trick ropester who ran away from the army--make up the "best in the west" wild west show. Followed by two trucks, a horse trailer and a red convertible with pearl-handled revolvers for door handles, Billy leads his cavalry in search of orphanages, mental institutions and anywhere else they can find a crowd...
...Charter's holdings fit into the troika. Mason also owns an Oregon "aquaculture" subsidiary for salmon ranching, and has begun manufacturing a machine that unloads boxcars at ports. Because Charter is known for eclectic holdings, the company daily receives proposals for ventures that range from Montana gold mines to biorhythm techniques. Mason is considering "four or five" more new deals, including buying a railroad. Stock analysts fear that some of these far-flung adventures could cause the company to stumble again, as it did in 1975. But for now the high price of oil is paying for additions...