Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lakeside ranch 20 miles southwest of Havana, the croak of 500,000 bullfrogs filled the air last week, and the reek of tanning frogskins drifted up from a row of concrete tanks. Ohio-born Major William Morgan, 32, kept 120 workers hopping by barking over short-wave radio such orders as: "Slaughter 10,000 more bulls!" Morgan, the highest ranking of the Americans who served with Fidel Castro in Castro's rebellion, is carving out a new career supplying U.S. restaurants with frogs' legs...
...opportunity for himself in Castro's sprawling program of land reform, Morgan talked the Agriculture Ministry into giving him charge of a fish hatchery. He raised carp, sunfish and black bass, read up on frogs, soon was ready to expand. Taking over 430 acres of a confiscated ranch along Lake Ariguanabo, Morgan spent $40,000 of the ministry's money digging ditches to hold his frogs, another $30,000 stocking the farm with frogs caught by peasants in the streams and marshes of western Cuba...
...Tampa. Fla. when a youngster rushed in yelling that the car had fallen on Charles (Mrs. Rogers' son by a former marriage). Husband and wife dashed out to the yard where Charles Trotter, 16, had blocked the front wheels and jacked up the rear of their 1954 Ford Ranch Wagon to work on the universal joints. The bumper jack had slipped, and Charles's right leg was pinned between the car body and the driveshaft...
...From the ranch lands of outlying islands, where orchids grow wild, to the cool, pastel-colored balconies of new buildings on famed Waikiki Beach, a frenetic building boom of houses, shopping centers and hotels is under way in Hawaii. The Honolulu bureau that records new construction is eight months behind in its tallies. In February alone, new construction of dwelling units reached $15 million, a 250% increase over a year ago. Fortunes have been made in days by big and small investors alike. Examples...
...former Denver businessmen, Glenn I. Payton and David O'Keefe, bought 12,000 acres of ranch land on the big, outlying Island of Hawaii for $55,000 cash and a $200,000 mortgage. After putting in $270,000 worth of roads, they subdivided the land into 4,000 "Tropic Estates," sold them...