Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was the beginning of a deal. While the airlines' lawyers were arguing before the CAA, opponents Frye and Kratz went hangar-flying over drinks in a nearby bar, became fast friends. A few weeks ago they met again on a New Mexico dude ranch at a meeting of Conquistadores del Cielo (Conquerors of the Sky), an airline executives' organization for making hoopla in ten-gallon hats and hair pants (see cut). Over the poker table where they played with steady hand for fat stakes, and on horseback trips where they rode for saddle-galls, the deal...
...months' vacation "foolin' round," seldom wears "civvies," is "scared of bulls" (in spite of the fact that steer riding is his specialty), earns about $6,000 a year, expects to retire at 35. But unlike most career cowboys, he does not plan to buy a cattle ranch when his bucking days are over. Instead, he hopes to run either a nightclub or a dude ranch. "I can get along with dudes," says he. "All you have to do is let them have their...
Veterans. Of the free-lance journalists who had written most passionately of war and the power politics back of it, not one had seen action on any front last week. Ernest Hemingway was at his ranch in Montana, working on a new book. Vincent Sheean was in Manhattan, awaiting the birth of a child to his English wife. Pierre van Paassen, onetime Toronto Star correspondent in Spain, author of the bestseller, Days of Our Years, was on board the U. S. liner Manhattan, bound for New York...
Album of the month: Western songs (Decca), sung as straight as a Texas fence line by the three able Ranch Boys...
...Decorative Arts, described as a $35,000,000 exhibit-destined at Fair's end to become an airplane hangar-proved that the Exposition's officials were wrong about human nature. For six months the art gallery (admission 25?-children 10?) never grossed so much as the "Dnude Ranch" (same price, no children admitted...