Word: ranchers
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...thoroughbreds paraded to the post. But anyone in position or condition to see them-and few were-had eyes for only three: Nashua, owned by New York Financier William Woodward Jr.; Summer Tan, owned by Columbus, Ohio's Mrs. John W. Galbreath; and Swaps, owned by California Rancher Rex Ellsworth...
...with a serious economic and political question-what to do with our surpluses. Most suggested solutions to this home-grown problem have the tendency to affect a dairy farmer in France as well as his counterpart in Wisconsin, a wheat-grower in Montana as well as a sheep rancher in Australia...
...vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their $2,500-a-year special expense account...
...education that is duplicated nowhere else in the world. "What we're trying to teach the boys," says Livestock Expert George. Reid, "is the sense of making a sound, systematic decision. That's useful in any walk of life, but if a boy is a rancher, buying stock or buying meat, this training applies specifically...
...first novel in two years. The scene is old California, but it is still that familiar woman's world which is largely devoted to men. Two beauties, one Spanish, one Irish, become friends, and all goes well until a man comes between them. He is an Oxford-educated rancher, but a Don Juan rather than a don. One of the girls ropes him, of course. The other gets a consolation prize: a mere unlarned cow poke, he is, who did not even get to Cambridge. Miss Harriet Townshend is vintage Kathleen Norris-sweet, inoffensive, forgettable...