Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolteacher; so far, he has concentrated on sewing lessons for young girls, close-order drill for a "sanitation corps" of boys. The practical effect, says a U.S. plantation foreman, has been to "set Cuban agriculture back five years." In Oriente province INRA plowed up 20,000 acres of ranch land for truck farming-then learned that there was no way to irrigate the parched land...
...something that belonged to the past, along with speakeasies and a stock market where anybody could cash in. Gone, too, were Gilda's fortune and her health. She filed a petition in bankruptcy and went out to Colorado to pull herself together on a friend's ranch. Later, there were a few moments of notoriety: she stirred up the town of Sterling, Colo, by consenting to appear at a high school dance; she sued Columbia Pictures for a million dollars, claiming that the movie Gilda was an invasion of her privacy (she settled out of court). There were...