Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competition, one of the oldest in the College, will consist of a preliminary heat in the middle of March. The final round will take place at the end of the month at which the remaining contestants will deliver their orations at a public program at the Music Building...
...will get and should be shipped, or when a cow has begun to fail as a calf-producer and should be slaughtered. He picks the calves to be saved for breeding, marks the ones to be sold. The shipping and branding is a year-round job, with fall the busiest time. Kleberg stays on a horse "because I can make more money on a horse." His slim, attractive wife, Helen, who often rides the range with him, usually adds: "Also, he'd rather be on a horse...
Monkey performed so well at siring a new breed that now all the cattle on the ranch are descended from him. The Santa Gertrudis breed, which is now widely sought wherever there is year-round grass feeding, has one great moneymaking virtue: it is hardier and grows heavier on grass feeding than any other...
...Kleberg is free of the current problem of cattlemen-the sky-high price of corn for feeding. He is one of the small percentage of U.S. cattlemen who use virtually no grain. He has the vast acreage to grass-feed his cattle the year round, and his 82,000 Santa Gertrudis cattle now give as much beef as the ranch once got from 125,000 of its English breeds. He is planning to increase his herds...
...members of the National Association of Manufacturers gathered for their annual meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Waldorf-Astoria last week, most of them were sure of the No. 1 bellyache of U.S. industry. It was inflation, complicated by a new round of union wage demands, and most of the NAMsters agreed on the cure put forth by General Motors' C. E. Wilson. Said he: the 40-hour week must go, at least temporarily...