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Word: rancher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proud Lawrence ("Tuff") Fullmer taught his muscular son everything he had learned from a short and undistinguished career in the ring (two younger brothers are also learning). Then Tuff turned Gene over to Marv Jenson, a local mink rancher, who had developed the once-promising heavyweight Rex Layne. Young Gene was the kind of willing worker that Jenson had always wanted. Out of high school, he had a job as an apprentice welder, in the repair shop at Kennecott Copper's great open-pit mine, but he still had the energy to get up at five o'clock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Lemme Open Up | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

...drilling there. While many of the wells did not produce oil, they had gas. But no one knew whether there was enough gas in the field to make it worthwhile to build a pipeline. Nevertheless, Jackson went to work to get the gas to market, persuaded a Wise County rancher to give him an 18-month option to drill three wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL & GAS: A Word to the Wise | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...David M. Kennedy, 51, vice president of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. of Chicago, ninth largest bank in the U.S. (total deposits: $2,473,000,000), was elected president to succeed Carl A. Birdsall, who died three weeks ago. The Mormon son of a Utah rancher, Dave Kennedy graduated from Weber College ('28) in Ogden, Utah, then served the customary two-year term as a Mormon missionary in England. Afterwards he joined the Federal Reserve as a technical assistant to the director of bank operations, spent nights studying law and economics at George Washington University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Changes of the Week, Dec. 10, 1956 | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...Evans, grandson of Lije, is the central character of These Thousand Hills. He exemplifies the settlers of America's last frontier, the Mountain West, and the establishment there of the Cattle Kingdom. Lat begins his rise as a Montana rancher by breaking away from his religious, impoverished parents and signing up for a cattle drive from Pendleton through Boise to Fort Benton, Montana. In Montana, he turns his winnings in a horse race (Callie, his prostitute mistress loaning the initial capital) into a profitable ranch. The politically ambitious Lat must, however, renounce his shady past and marries a Hoosier schoolmistress...

Author: By Nelson Bryce, | Title: These Thousand Hills: Study In Aculturation by Guthrie | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

Instead of concentrating on the narration of an improbable stream of consciousness, Guthrie might better focus on the scene in which his characters act. This is a book about a rancher, yet one learns nothing about ranching. The reader also misses the lonely magnificence of the land, which grips its inhabitants so profoundly. It is almost as if Guthrie has never traveled through some of the country about which he writes...

Author: By Nelson Bryce, | Title: These Thousand Hills: Study In Aculturation by Guthrie | 12/5/1956 | See Source »

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