Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles International Airport, a luxurious ranch-type hotel with a palm-fringe'd patio and swimming pool opened for business, was already booked a month in advance. Built by Real Estate Man Hyatt von Dehn, 45, his Hyatt House has a $75-a-day executive suite for business conferences, 69 other rooms at $8 to $14 a day. At New York City's La Guardia Airport, former Hotel Owner (Manhattan's Paramount and Weylin) Louis Ritter, 48, had the first 40-room section of his $2,500,000 La Guardia Hotel (future size: 265 rooms) open...
Shock Treatment. The plot began to unfold last spring when Braden bought a ranch-style house in a quiet, all-white suburban section outside Louisville, then transferred title to Andrew Wade, a Negro electrical contractor. In Louisville, where the hard lines of segregation are disappearing slowly, Braden's Communist-style "shock treatment" brought the expected results. First a flaming cross was burned on a lot adjoining Wade's property, then a volley of shots was fired into the house. Finally a bomb exploded...
...being reseeded and replanted, abandoned farms reclaimed from the encroaching bracken. John Hobbs, a Canadian who made a fortune in whisky, has set out to woo the Highland crofter from his sheep and show him how to make more money with cattle, demonstrating with a 16,000-acre ranch of his own, complete from cowboys to roundups...
...location, leaving his dog to frisk around the swimming pool or a 20-room mansion. But loneliness finally catches up with him. and he is apt to be found merely staring at So walls all day long. Sometimes the master sends his pet to the Double E, a dude ranch for dogs, which features a swimming pool and canopied miniature cabanas with adjoining fire hydrants. Here, in a pleasant environment, dogs can enjoy themselves in supervised play and even tell each other the latest shaggy people stories...
...just could not keep his hands off the piano. When the family moved to a ranch house near Ione, southeast of Sacramento, the cowhands used to gather around evenings to listen to the boy play, and sometimes Dave's father would pick up his harmonica and with Dave run through every cowboy tune that they could think...