Word: montes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Earlier this month 500-h.p. diesel tractors, brand-named Big Bud 525 and Steiger Panther, pushed 60-ft.-wide chisel plows into the gentle prairie around the hamlet of Winnett, Mont., quickly transforming what once was Wayne Bratten's 28,000-acre ranch into a raw wound of overturned earth. Eastern Colorado Wheat Farmer Emmett Linnebur became a part owner of the Crow Rock Ranch near Miles City, Mont., and used a fleet of ten supertractors to tear into 50,000 of its acres for wheat planting. In recent years, tractors have bulldozed some 6.4 million acres of marginal...
...Dempsey's lore of names there is also a town: Shelby, Mont. (1923 pop. 2,000). The way Johnstown had a flood, Shelby had a prizefight. Hankering to be a world capital for a day, Shelby constructed a 40,000-seat arena for a Dempsey-Tommy Gibbons fight, only to have trouble raising the $300,000 guarantee required by Dempsey's rascally manager Jack ("Doc") Kearns. ("Give Doc 1,000 Ibs. of steel wool," it was said, "and he'll knit you a stove.") Barely 7,000 people paid to see the fight: the rest crashed...
...started as nothing more than a $5 speeding ticket, but by the time it was over, Daniel S. Murray, 34, of Billings, Mont., had been hit with history's most expensive speeding fine. Murray was flagged down for driving 68 miles an hour in a 55-m.p.h. zone on Sept. 3, 1980, and ordered to pay a $5 fine. The incensed motorist not only refused to pay up, he filed a lawsuit asking damages of $1,050,007. It charged Montana Highway Patrol Sergeant Ron Johnson with using unauthorized police powers and other infractions. Murray, an unemployed salesman...
...Harry R. Hughes (D) Paul S. Sarbanes (D) MASS. Michael S. Dukakis (D) Edward M. Kennedy (D) MICH. James J. Blanchard (D) Donald W. Riegle Jr. (D) MINN. Rudy Perpich (D) David Durenberger (R) MISS. No Race John C. Stennis (D) MO. No Race John C. Danforth (R) MONT. No Race John Melcher (D) NEB. Bob Kerrey (D) Edward Zorinsky (D) NEV. Richard Bryan (D) * N.H. John H. Sununu (R) No Race N.J. No Race Frank R. Lautenberg (D) N.M. Toney Anaya (D) Jeff Bingaman (D) N.Y. Mario M. Cuomo (D) Daniel P. Moynihan (D) N.C. No Race No Race...
...undercurrent of unease ran through the five-day A.B.A. session. Rattled by the rising toll of corporate bankruptcies and the threat of defaults on international loans to such fiscally unstable countries as Mexico and Poland, bankers quietly fear that the worldwide recession has not yet done its worst. Said Mont McMillen, executive vice president of San Francisco's Bank America Corp.: "We're not out of the woods yet. In this environment you keep your muscles taut and ready for the next disaster...