Word: ranchman
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Died. Joseph Gordon Coates, 64, one time Prime Minister of New Zealand (1925-28); in Wellington, N.Z. Minister of Armed Forces & War Coordination since last July, rangy Ranchman Coates in 30 years of public life had administered home affairs, foreign affairs, courts, customs, rails, mails...
Shot. Near Pomona, Calif., Ranchman C. E. Foote shot at a crow. The shot frightened his horse, whose shoe struck sparks from a rock. The sparks set a fire that burned 25 acres of land. The crow escaped...
...Ranchman Gill's horse threw him. Three months later, in Washington, D. C., Richard Gill was flat on his back and rigid with spastic (muscle-contracting) paralysis. He remained on his back for four years. Doctors had no drug to combat his condition. One "eminent specialist" said that curare (pronounced koo-rah-reh), which contains a muscle-relaxing principle, might help. But U. S. doctors had never been able to get enough pure curare to experiment with its properties...