Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...domestic issues that concern them are education, crime and their interests as consumers. Johnson is virtually certain to sprinkle these with as much new seasoning as possible, as well as to freshen up the antipoverty effort. Johnson, who spent last week close to the soil at his Texas ranch, may also attempt to mollify farmers with proposals to encourage collective bargaining on prices for larger producers, greater financial aid for small operators, and new efforts to bolster farm incomes...
...White House, the Commerce, Defense and Treasury Departments, the Federal Reserve and the Council of Economic Advisers-worked on parts of the package, but only ten or so knew its full dimensions. When the finishing touches were finally completed, newsmen were summoned to the airplane hangar at the L.B.J. ranch for what they were told would be an important New Year's Day announcement...
First Order of Business. However, if Johnson is hoping that his tough measures will spur Mills to swifter action on the tax increase, he may be in for a disappointment. In announcing his program at the ranch, the President declared, largely for Mills's benefit, "No business before the returning Congress will be more urgent than this: to enact the anti-inflation tax which I have sought for almost a year." But Mills and several Ways and Means colleagues are still deeply disturbed at the rate of Government spending, and they do not intend to move the tax surcharge...
...scene is unmistakably the old Ponderosa. As the Cartwright family digs in to defend the ranch against a band of rustlers, there is a clatter of hoofs. Suddenly one of the boys shouts: "Nie strzelaj, Hoss! To szeryf!" That's dubbed-in Polish for "Don't shoot, Hoss! It's the sheriff...
...amid such antique decor as a rifle marked with Indian scrolls and a collection of Charles Russell oils, watercolors and bronzes depicting scenes from the early American West. He also prides himself on his collection of Indian relics, which he keeps on his 10,000-acre Lake County cattle ranch, 90 miles north of San Francisco...