Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve rooms, four 20-ft. white columns in front, four sleeping porches, 14 rocking chairs and almost as many couches, and a Brobdingnagian butane gas stove in the kitchen. The farm has 150 acres; there are 208 more acres on a neighboring farm, and 917 on the Rayburn cattle ranch 13 miles away. Sam's brothers, Tom and Jim, run the farm and ranch; his sister Lucinda, known to all as Miss Lou, is the mistress of the house...
When Sam is home he helps in the chores, visits in the Bonham general store, rides about the ranch to inspect his 200 white-faced cattle. Sam's favorite spot is the one-story ranch house, nestled in a grove of oak trees. Here is no telephone, no mail delivery; only a yawning fireplace, walnut beds, and electric stove for steak broiling and an old-fashioned icebox, usually filled with watermelons. Here, on the hot summer afternoons, Sam Rayburn lolls around, often in his shorts, letting the sweat roll down his bald head. Or fie inspects the solid fence...
Susanville is no Hollywood suburb; it lies in the shadow of the High Sierras, 80 miles northwest of Reno, Nev. It is tough, rich lumber and ranch country, and Ted Friend expects to buy a ranch when he gets there. His wife and their daughter, Suzy, hope he can make it go. They have questioned the functional utility of the first item of house-furnishings on Publisher Friend's list: twelve hammocks. He doesn't. He wants them all over the place. Sighs city-weary, country-struck Ted Friend: "I love hammocks...
...nation's livestock growers were also on a kind of strike. On U.S. pastures and ranges, from Texas' giant King Ranch down to the tiniest farm, grazed more cattle (80,000,000 head) than ever before in history. Yet stockyards all over the U.S. were nearly empty. Cattle slaughtered in Federal-inspected yards had slumped to 150,000 for the week ending June 19, compared to 173,000 the preceding week. Last week the butchery was still less: in Chicago's Union Stockyards, hundreds of cattle pens were vacant...
Clara Bow, the cinema's "It" girl of the late '20s, was recovering from a nervous breakdown on the California ranch where she lives with her husband Rex Bell...