Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Onetime President Getulio Vargas has been on leave from the Brazilian Senate for more than a year. But to his tiny, yellow stucco ranch house in remote southwest Rio Grande do Sul comes an endless stream of well-wishers, politicos, favor-seekers and givers of advice. Three and a half years after the revolution that broke his 15-year rule, the wily ex-dictator is again the political personage of the hour...
...white frame laboratory on an outpost of the Essar Ranch near San Antonio, an intense young scientist is operating on a partially anesthetized cow. He injects a local anesthetic into a shaved area on the flank, swabs it with alcohol and makes an incision. Ten minutes later he sews up the incision. The cow is only a scrub from the range of a nearby rancher-but if all goes well she will bear a calf which has two pedigreed parents...
...planes came in one, two and four in the Bendix air race. He is rumored to be spending $100,000 to enter a car in this year's Indianapolis auto race. A crack shot, he spends much of his spare time hunting on his 15,000-acre ranch with his wife and five children. There are weeks when they see little of him. He likes to dash around the country in one of his two planes, sometimes takes the whole family along...
...three Confederate-loving buckaroos who keep things moving are Joel McCrea, Zachary Scott and Douglas Kennedy, owners of the Three Bell Ranch. The complicated action is sped up-as well as made more complicated-by cattle-rustling Victor Jory who, working as a Union Army guerrilla fighter, steals their cattle, burns down their ranch, and starts cutting in on their gunrunning racket...
...went Rupert in disgrace; and back to Glad Acres went $38,000 plus $3,000 for transportation and other costs. Saddened but not discouraged, Turner sent Rupert to Kansas State College, where he got the full treatment of modern veterinarian vitalizing. After seven months, Rupert returned to his home ranch, full of penicillin, assorted hormones and vitamin C. But he was still sterile...