Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby), Bob Anderson proved a real find as Navy Secretary, quickly won a boost and was for a time rated a likely heir to Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson. Anderson, on leave from his $60,000-a-year job running the 510,000-acre Waggoner ranch and oil properties, has recently been pressed to run for governor of Texas. He has strong support from both Governor Allan Shivers and the anti-Shivers faction of the divided Texas Democratic Party...
...grazing lands and livestock history of the state as any man alive, laid the groundwork for Idaho's bull-grading system, kept his scattered clientele well supplied with learned but simple reports. Traveling by car, train and horse, he became a familiar figure in the barns and ranch houses of Idaho, and wherever he went, his rambling advice was awaited and welcomed almost with awe. "You'd think," says one cattleman, "that he wasn't listening to you at all. And then after a while, Riney would say something. Then he'd start for the door...
Chester H. Lauck, 53, the "Lum" of the radio and movie team of Lum 'n' Abner, was named an executive assistant in Houston's Continental Oil Co. Lauck, longtime cattle raiser (on his 143,000-acre Nevada ranch) and veteran of a score of radio years, was a businessman (manager of the Citizen's Finance Corp. of Mena, Ark.) before he turned to radio. Continental President L. F. McCollum said that while Lauck will have administrative duties with the company, he will also "be available as an after-dinner speaker and for other community gatherings...
...gallops back to the family ranch, jilts his girl, demands his inheritance from his patriarchal father (Walter Hampden), and hits the trail for Damascus, lusting after alien goddesses...
...Lugging the top weight in the race (130 Ibs.), King Ranch's brown colt High Gun, competing for the first time this year, worried his backers by swinging wide on the stretch turn, then straightened out to run away from an impressive field and won the Metropolitan Handicap by 4½ lengths at Belmont Park...