Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agents for Mr. Henry Self, owner of the 2000 acre Posey Mound Plantation, explained to me that the families had been kicked off because "they didn't want to work. They seemed to be of the opinion that they could run the place." He pointed out that families had been leaving the plantation for years. In the early 1940's it had supported 50 families. Now 12 tractors worked the fields. Fewer than 15 families remained, many out of the charity of Mr. Self...
...Winner of more Derbies (seven) than any other stable, the farm that produced such champions as Citation, Whirlaway and Armed has fallen on hard times recently: not since Tim Tam carried her devil's red and blue silks to victory in the 1958 Derby has Calumet's owner, Mrs. Gene Markey, even entered a horse in the Run for the Roses. Forward Pass is a throwback to the good old days. A rangy bay with tremendous early speed, he won last March's $134,000 Florida Derby, followed that up with a smashing five-length victory...
...basic pitch is always to an owner's heart, not to his pocketbook. "People always feel they have neglected their pet," says Morris Levinson, president of Associated Products, which sells Rival. "To help solve the guilt feelings, they want to feed their pet better-like themselves." "Who knows what greatness lives in the heart of a dog? We do," runs the TV commercial for General Foods' Gaines Gravy Train. Purina notes in its advertising: "All you add is love...
Every girl sold is required to be her owner's slave for a day, but the notice gave no indication of what she must do or how long she must...
...accident cost him three of his fingers. He collected $1,000 in insurance and invested the money in a Milanese workshop on a back street ironically named Via Progresso. Valente scratched out a living manufacturing everything from electric hot plates to railroad accessories, until a café owner, Achille Gaggia, came to him with an idea for an espresso machine. For ten years, Gaggia had been unable to interest any manufacturers in his process; Valente saw the potential immediately. It was 1947, and "I realized that busy people could no longer linger over café filtre," says he. "I knew...