Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before the Capitol in Washington, Texas Rancher Eugene M. Biggers presented Wisconsin's Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his bride with small tokens of some 2,000 Texans' affection: a $6,000 air-conditioned Cadillac and a certificate from Texas Governor Allan Shivers saluting "a real American [who] is now officially a Texan." Said the Senator: "This is the first car I've driven under my own title that was completely paid...
...meat prices high because someone between the rancher and the retail counter is getting too much gravy? The answer is no, even though cattlemen are selling their grass-fed steers at a loss in today's markets. But middlemen are making no lush profits. The feeders, who buy steers to fatten up for market, are lucky to make a 10% profit-provided that they guess right on what the price will be when they sell. Meat packers' profits are smaller: last year they were six-tenths of a cent on each dollar of sales. The retailer, whose average...
...settled feeling, I think, that Ike has met the challenge of the latter two points and, though there is need to worry about the first point, nothing definite has yet occurred, and no action is better than wrong action. Beyond those three points, the average farmer and rancher apparently look for little else from the Administration, which accounts for a general indifference to its record, or lack of it, up to now. There are certainly those with strong feelings about taxation, military spending and foreign aid, but save in special areas-such speculation centers and market places as Peoria...
...midstory, the film creakingly moves to Brazil and is taken over by the Rio de Janeiro chamber of commerce. In between plugs for the heady Brazilian climate, Lund falls off polo ponies and Lana exchanges passionate glances with Ricardo Montalban, who plays a bare-chested rancher with a coyly devilish grandfather (Louis Calhern). Since the plot offers no clear reason why the movie should run 104 Technicolored minutes, Scenarist Isobel Lennart has thrown in such extraneous items as a funnyman from the U.S. Embassy (Archer MacDonald), a brace of psychoanalysts (fast replacing mothers-in-law as Hollywood's stock...
...counties were turning up at his warehouse to pay $35 a ton for emergency feed, which he estimated cost the Government at least $70 a ton. "Some of these fellows," said Young, "have more oil wells than most of us have dollars.'' Among them, said he, was Rancher J. S. Bridwell, who is reportedly worth $18 million, and who got a month's supply (21 tons) of cottonseed meal at the Government's low price...