Word: ranch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Levitts are switching from the kind of house they built on Long Island to three-bedroom, ranch-type homes, with 1,070 sq. ft. of floor space v. 800 in the Long Island homes. They will have wood-burning fireplaces that open onto three rooms, radiant heating, picture windows, sliding panels that make it easy to enlarge the living room, electric ranges, refrigerators, washing machines...
...occasionally to Dallas in an armored Ford to buy groceries and beer (he was afraid to drink anything stronger), but always in daylight and always with a rifle lying across his lap as he drove. Most of the time he stayed forted up in the stone house at his ranch. He had rigged floodlights to the eaves on every side and installed watchdogs (heavy-duty Dalmatians and tiny, yapping Chihuahuas). As an additional alarm system, he kept screaming peacocks and cackling guinea hens near the house. He seldom slept until dawn. He sat up, rifle at hand, night after night...
...Homebody. His friends pleaded with him to leave the ranch. "This is my home," he said. "I won't be driven out of it." In a way, he even seemed to enjoy the chillingly dramatic part he was playing. The attempts on his life went on. Another shotgun blast was fired at him from the woods, but his car's armor saved him. Last March, the engine of his airplane blew up as he started...
...stately pleasure domes that would have awed Kubla Khan. He equipped the place with everything from giraffes to Roman baths, spent millions to give its vistas a Maxfield Parrish unreality-and insisted on paper napkins and ketchup bottles at the long refectory table because San Simeon was still "the ranch...
Search for Oil. At the height of its expansion, Matador owned or leased feeding ranges which included large tracts in Saskatchewan and hundreds of thousands of acres of reservation land leased from the Indians in Montana, Wyoming and South Dakota. Now, apart from the main 400,000-acre Matador ranch, the holdings consist of another 394,000-acre ranch (the Alamositas, or Little Cottonwoods) 140 miles to the northwest, and a small 4,000acre feeding strip near Malta, Mont. The lure to the buyers of Matador is not only cattle; it is also oil and gas. Although Humble Oil & Refining...