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Word: ranches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Investment Banker Willard H. York, 36, hustled his wife, mother, son & daughter into the family sedan and began the usual Sunday drive from his ranch to church in San Antonio. He had a particularly gritty rag to chew over with his conscience. On March 19, the SEC had filed suit against him. It charged that York had done business while insolvent, and had used customers' securities without their consent. The same day, Dr. Lloyd Irving Ross, one of San Antonio's top surgeons, had filed suit for $80,279. Dr. Ross was an old friend, a fellow Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Entranced | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Posse. In Roswell, N. Mex., Ranch-woman Mrs. C. A. Marley strapped on her .38, tracked down and caught the mere male who had stolen her favorite horse, delivered the offender, hog-tied, to the sheriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 2, 1947 | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

...Hepler Brothers and offered them $10,000 for Loser Shue Fly. He was politely turned down. Then he issued a friendly invitation that was accepted. Next morning, gallant ten-year-old Shue Fly, her quarter-horsing days over, was shipped to Kleberg's 875,000-acre King ranch, there to be bred to Kentucky Derby winner Bold Venture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Daylighted | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Chicago gunman named "Moe" Snyder, known more popularly to tabloid readers as "The Gimp." The next year, The Gimp crashed her Hollywood home and shot up Ruth's pianist, Myrl Alderman. The Gimp went to jail for a year. Ruth eloped with Alderman and retired to a Colorado ranch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Harvest Moon | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...country. The slaughterhouse, built with an Export-Import Bank loan, nominally belongs to the state; so do the ships that carry Trujillo's beef to their Puerto Rican markets. Dominican soldiers load the ships for Trujillo. They also milk the cows on his model 200,000-acre ranch, La Fundacion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Beautiful Murder | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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