Word: ranching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about this time that she met gangling, rawboned Lyndon Johnson, 26, who was down from his Washington job as secretary to Texas Democratic Congressman Richard Kleberg, a member of the famous King Ranch family...
Kingsbery suggested to Johnson that he "make his peace" with heirs of the late Austin Publisher J. M. West, who had originally headed the syndicate. Recalled Kingsbery: "Lyndon told me he was going up to the West ranch to talk business, and he did, and he came away with KTBC...
...official accounting of the Johnson family's full fortune, disclosed by Trustee Moursund, indicates that the President personally owns about $400,000 in municipal bonds, ranch land, lake property, livestock and cash. Mrs. Johnson's holdings add up to $2,500,000-the great bulk of it ($2,030,000) in Texas Broadcasting Corp. stock. And the Johnson daughters, Lynda Bird, 20, and Luci Baines, 17, each hold $630,000 in Texas Broadcasting stock and real estate. That totals $4,160,000 for the family...
...that is changing now. The great baronial manor houses are still standing and there are still one or two spreads that make Texas' King Ranch look like a truck garden.* But the vast green bulk of the pampas is being crosshatched by fences and boundary roads into smaller and smaller holdings. So, too, is the Midas-rich patrón of yesteryear giving way to hundreds of relatively small farmers and cattlemen who count themselves lucky to make a middle-class living. In the late 1930s, one-fifth of Argentina, or 139 million acres, belonged to just...
...Guanizuil Ranch in western Argentina covers 2,470,000 acres v. 865,000 acres for the King Ranch...