Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...latest wartime wildcatter is H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor. Last week on his E.P. (stands for Edvardus Princeps) ranch, 65 miles southwest of Calgary, a rotary drill was gouging the earth. The Duke had joined the search for the elusive oil pool under Alberta...
...crisscrossed the Duke's 4,000-acre ranch by plane, pointed out a likely spot for drilling. Three weeks ago the drillers dug in. Last week the well was logged at 1,300 feet and "up to expectations...
...Brown had set up a laboratory in the royal dining room at the ranch house. Drillers eyes bugged at the size of the Duke's refrigerator. Said one: "It's big enough to hold all the beer that all of us could buy with all our liquor permits...
...heaped fire & brimstone on the League of Nations, Prohibition, women suffragists, Federalism and numberless other targets. His last attack was on the doctors who wanted to hospitalize him. Hale & hearty almost to the last, he had spent a strenuous summer fishing at his north Michigan ranch. Now, at 82, he preferred to die in his spacious log house, doctors notwithstanding...
...Author. Since settling (1938) in California, where climate and treatment have helped his ailing eyesight, Aldous Huxley has collaborated on two cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...