Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partner, Sportsman Lin Howard. Under California's community property law, Mrs Crosby owned half of Bing's vast holdings (oil, real estate, frozen juice), putting him in the position of paying federal and state inheritance taxes on property he had piled up himself. At his Nevada ranch, Bing shrugged, "Taxes are taxes...
...Paramount has seven years to run. He grosses better than $175,000 a picture; record royalties bring in a steady $150,000 a year or more. He also has a million or so in real estate, shares in a profitable frozen-juice business, owns a 25,000-acre ranch near Elko, Nev. And if all else should fail, "the income from my oil leases alone would take care of me comfortably for the rest of my life...
...after a stint as a debate coach at Houston's Sam Houston High School, 23-year-old Lyndon Johnson advanced on Washington. He had helped in the congressional campaign of Richard Kleberg, one of the owners of the fabulous King Ranch, and Kleberg took him east as a secretary. Before long, Lyndon reorganized something called "The Little Congress," an organization of congressional employees, got himself elected "speaker," and turned a drab organization into a yeasty forum for New Deal proposals...
Rancher Joe S. Chavez was above such superstitions and the poor Mexicans who believed in them. Joe was big, tough, and handsome. After he married beautiful Josefina Puebla back in 1929, she inherited a ranch near the Superstition Mountains. Joe raised white-faced cattle. Joe leased section after section of Government grazing land. Joe prospered. But ten years ago a dreadful thing happened to his wife. She began going blind, suffering from trancelike spells, and complaining that her head was swelling up like a balloon...
Five Shots. Maria laughed. She would perhaps accept his $8,000 house, she said. But when he went back in two weeks, she wanted his ranch too. He refused. Maria tittered again. Why, she asked, didn't he get the law? He did not dare. Numbly Joe went back to consulting other witches. All failed...