Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a crew of oilmen prepared to drill the first well on a ranch far down in the southwest corner of Alberta. Aware of oil deposits elsewhere in the neighborhood, the owner had hired geologists to examine his land. They reported: it's worth trying. Last week the owner, who had not visited the ranch in nearly three years, reached the U.S. Said the owner (the Duke of Windsor) to reporters in Miami (see PEOPLE) : he and the Duchess would visit Washington and Manhattan, and just possibly might stop off at his ranch in Alberta...
...Duke of Windsor made his ninth trip to the U.S. since he became Governor of the Bahamas in 1940. With him, making her seventh, was his Duchess. They planned to spend a month in Manhattan, perhaps visit his Canadian ranch (see CANADA...
Jack Haley, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Hilliard get mixed up with a Dude Ranch and try to make the place a financial success. Amid bucking bronchos and strutting cowgirls, Haley and his hapless friends go through the usual routine of a grade B filler, avoiding new twists and good jokes like the plague...
Husky, precise, wisecracking "Ollie" Burke was born on a ranch in Colorado, but his heart was in the Navy from the time he was able to walk. At Annapolis he had no time for athletics or midshipmen's monkey-business. As an officer he became one of the Navy's best at ordnance and gunnery...
...bought a ranch in California, could not make a go of farming. The Versailles gave him a week's tryout at $200, then quickly quintupled his salary. Grandfather Brisson...