Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ranch cars, some specially built for cross-country driving (they have 100 trucks and autos), have to carry compasses to keep from getting lost on the vast range lands...
...ranch has 1,500 miles of fence; in a straight line, the fence would reach from New York to Fargo, N.Dak...
...Kingsville, built to service the ranch, now has 15,000 people and a King Ranch-controlled bank, newspaper, lumberyard, store and dairy...
There are 2,900 fast-starting, nimble "quarter horses" and 82 race horses in the ranch's stable. The ranch's Assault has won $623,370 to date, third biggest winner in racing history...
Fabled Prices. Despite the size of the King Ranch and its meat production, the nation focused anxious eyes last week on Bob Kleberg and his fellow U.S. cattlemen. This year they will send to slaughter an estimated record 36 million head of cattle. This tremendous movement of cattle from the ranges and feed lots has tended recently to force down the sky-high prices of meat in spite of the voracious demand. But now that the seasonal period of plenty is about over, what is the outlook for prices and supply? It is dark-if present demand continues...