Word: ranchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Carroll is a hairy-chested man with the saltiest vocabulary in Columbia County, N.Y. Born in a railroad car in Wichita-his father was trekking to California to settle as a cattle rancher-Painter Carroll studied for a spell at San Francisco's old Mark Hopkins Art Academy, finished two years of an engineering course at the University of California (playing fullback on the football team). On the side he punched cattle. After six months in a Cincinnati art school he joined the Navy in World...
...morning an Australian rancher swept 28,000 poisoned mice off his veranda. In a neighboring village 544 tons of mice were killed in five months. Hordes of field mice-as many as 80,000 per acre-once appeared in southern California, disappeared after devastating the countryside. In pre-Nazi Norway a steamer ploughed for a quarter of an hour through shoals of mouselike lemmings swimming out to sea via the Trondheim Fjord. In France great plagues of voles (short-tailed field mice) appear approximately every five years, then abruptly disappear. One of Germany's periodic infestations of mice...
...just lucky," drawls Bonham, who was born in 1913, the 13th child of a California wheat rancher. "Anyone could win with the Yankees behind him." Skillful Tiny Bonham will need luck to bear out his fans' predictions that he may win 30 games this season...
...there, in back pages of the newspapers, little items said eloquently that the U.S. was still the U.S. In Colorado a 16-year-old lad braved frozen hands and feet to help haul a toboggan eight miles through snowdrifts on an 8,000-ft. mountain, rescue a pneumonia-stricken rancher. A lad crippled by two bone operations, tuberculosis of the hip, pneumonia, ptomaine poisoning, appendicitis, graduated at the head of his Manhattan high-school class...
...characters known as the Guzik-Nitti gang, amid waves of public apathy. Last week the routine rigmarole was repeated. Out of a grand jury gambling investigation came tall, wavy-haired Mayor Ed Kelly. The look on his face was familiar to all connoisseurs of "B" movies-the Leading Rancher as he pounds the table and says: "Boys, Rustling Must Stop...