Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bing Crosby, after five weeks on his Nevada ranch, made an unorthodox appearance at the microphone...
...more than 20 years tough old Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...some $300,000 apiece in profits (a 4,800% return) since 1933. Even with out a calculator, that added up to a round $1,200,000 for Fridén's own 50% share in the business-more than enough to stock his 600-acre Alameda County ranch with fine palomino horses and Hereford cattle, and to pay for the lavish swimming and riding parties he likes...
Senior Animal Husbandryman Black of the U.S. Department of Agriculture would probably hold the finest breed to be Santa Gertrudis strain out of Afrikanders which he helped develop on the King Ranch in Texas. Some of us on the commercial side of cow business insist and prove by our records that a crossbred Shorthorn on Hereford from the western slope of the Rockies (area is important) feeds out better than any other animal. But the leading breed in numbers of breeders, numbers of head, range coverage, which tops the Chicago market about 85% of the time, is Hereford...
This is home, and Sam likes it. As he left the ranch ten days ago to return to Washington he drove to nearby Denison to board the Katy's Bhiebonnet. Driving in his tan Pontiac through the windswept streets of Denison, Sam heard the loafers under the broad store awnings call: "Good luck, Mister...