Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News Horticulturist-Publisher Manchester E. Boddy offered Promoter Smith some $250,000 worth of Southern California's flowering farmland for the give-away price of $25,000. Boddy ("the Ferdinand of the publishing business") wanted a lively marketing outlet for the flowers from his 165-acre horticultural wonder ranch at La Canada, Calif. Smith had rescued his newspaper from a slow circulation death with dazzling promotion campaigns. If Smith could sell the Daily News that was, reasoned Boddy, he could sell anything...
...None. The Lord of Diamonds is Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, chairman of De Beers and Diamond Corp. (which together own Diamond Trading Co.), and understudy of the late Empire-building Cecil Rhodes. Now living on his spacious ranch outside Johannesburg, Sir Ernest makes only occasional visits to the little grey building in London from which the cartel rules...
Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, tidying up (by proxy: he is in England) his Dutch Branch ranch near Fort Worth, shipped eight Arabian horses (one stallion, four brood mares, three colts) to his bride in California, Cinemactress Faye Emerson. The shipment went by rail freight...
Hereford raisers had reason to hope that the mark would be broken again next year. In the closing minutes of the auction, Bob Lazear, manager of the Wyoming Hereford Ranch at Cheyenne, Wyo., received the most fabulous offer yet-$100,000 for W. H. R. Helmsman III, judged top bull of the show. But, income taxes being what they are, Bob Lazear was of no mind to set a record: he turned down the offer. Said he: "I wouldn't know what to do with $100,000, but I know what to do with a bull...
Oregon's Freshman Senator Wayne Morse arrived in Washington last week with a cross-country eyeview, and an earful of what U.S. citizens are thinking about. Reason: to move his two prize horses (see cut) Senator Morse drove the 3,310 miles from his Oregon ranch in a 1941 Ford, towing a four-wheeled trailer. The trailer contained an ironing board, boxes of jelly & jam, an electric toaster and the horses, "Spice of Life" and "Oreganna Bourbon...