Word: rancher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Newton and his sidekick as phony experts; it also dug up enough evidence to arrest Newton and a man the paper said was his Dr. Gee, Leo Ge Bauer, operator of a small electrical manufacturing shop in Phoenix, Ariz. The charge: Newton and Ge Bauer had fleeced a wealthy rancher out of $34,000 with another "scientific" discovery, a machine that could locate oil or water underground...
Tall (6 ft. 2-| in.) Tom Mechling decided to make the race a year ago while covering Washington newsheets for the Kiplinger Washington Letter. A veteran (Air Intelligence), he became a Nevadan in 1945, married the daughter of a wealthy Wells (Nev.) rancher. In Washington, Tom was a hard-digging reporter with an unquenchable idealism. Said a fellow Kiplinger staffer: "Tom's the slow burn type. But when he gets mad. he'll pop." Tom Mechling's slow burn began with the stories Margaret carried home evenings from her patronage job as a stenographer on Pat McCarran...
Dutch Bobs. "He's just the kind of guy who has to lead." says Soapy's admiring younger brother Hank, now a Republican district committeeman and rancher in Glenwood Springs, Colo. "Soapy was president of the choir at St. Paul's in Detroit. He used to kick me out all the time. I made the kids laugh and Soapy would run me out. Luckily I had pull: father was a vestryman and he would get me back in." Father Henry P. Williams built up a comfortable income in the pickle business and in Detroit real estate. Mother...
...longer do rancher and farmer struggle alone against flood and drought in, one of the most formidable regions of a formidable continent. For seven years, the Missouri Valley has been the scene of one of the greatest land and water control and development projects ever attempted, a spectacular 35-year, $15 billion state & federal public works program designed to tame the huge watershed, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Great Divide. Since August 1945, when the ten valley states and six federal agencies joined in an informal, voluntary federation (the Interagency Committee) to put the Missouri Valley development program...
...Linda, Calif., a small (present pop. 885), citrus-growing town near Los Angeles, to Frank (Scotch-Irish ancestry) and Hannah Milhous Nixon (Irish-English), who migrated from the Middle West to California in their youth, married in 1908, are still hale & hearty. Father worked as streetcar motorman, oilfield worker, rancher, built filling station at Whittier, Calif., later added a grocery store, now known as Nixon's Market and run by Dick's younger brother...