Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...excessively hard to raise. They live on cheap vegetables rather than expensive meat. Unlike mink, they do not tear one another to bits. They have no unpleasant odor nor do they bite the hand that feeds them. In their wild state, the males are monogamous; but on the fur ranch, they can be persuaded into polygamy. A female can produce three annual litters of one to five offspring...
Physicist Oppenheimer, who reads eight languages including Sanskrit, will be the Institute for Advanced Study's third director (his predecessors: Abraham Flexner and Frank Aydelotte). Oppy favors porkpie hats and good horses. During the war he and his wife traveled by horseback from their Pecos Valley ranch to Los Alamos, to the considerable mortification of a tenderfoot FBI agent who had to ride along. Oppy's pet peeve: anybody who underestimates the Bomb ("Its limitations? The limitations lie in the fact that you don't want to be on the receiving...
Married. Richard Mifflin Kleberg, 59, lobbyist for hoof & mouth disease control among cattle, former Democratic Representative from Texas, owner of champion horse Assault, and part-owner of 1,250,000-acre King Ranch, world's largest privately owned cattle ranch; and Mamie Searcy Kleberg, 57; both for the second time (she divorced him in 1944 for mental cruelty); at his Washington hospital bedside (he suffered a heart attack three weeks...
...make planning easy, Home Planners put out a $1.50 book containing 26 house designs, chiefly moderately priced one-story, ranch-type; for another $5 it sold complete blueprints. But Robinson's bright idea was to sell also, for $1.50, a colored cut-out cardboard model of the house in scale. Easily put together, the model showed the prospective builder just how the whole house would look before he started building. It even contained cardboard pieces scaled to the size of furniture...
...wives of the atomic scientists did not know what their husbands were doing, but they did know that there was no school in Los Alamos for their kids. So they hired themselves as teachers and started a one-room school in a log cabin left over from the old Ranch School. Because the name Los Alamos was taboo, they called it the "One-Armed School" (after the one-armed chairs in which the children...