Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Well-behaved and businesslike-some already have incomes running into five figures-they had little time for sightseeing or the movies. Many made a beeline for the American Royal Livestock Show, which ran concurrently with the F.F.A. convention. Others stuck to the convention agenda, listened to speeches by Secretary of Agriculture Clint Anderson and British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, and frolicked at a big barn-warming party, where they shucked corn and sweatily swung their partners in old-fashioned square dances...
...applauded when red-faced Ray Gene Cinnamon, 19, a shy boy with a big grin, from Garber, Okla., was named 1947 Star Farmer of America (prize: $1,000). Ray Gene has been showing prize-winning livestock at the Royal show for the past seven years. In 1944 his entry took the grand champion steer award, which, together with two other prize-winning animals, netted him more than $9,000. That year Ray Gene had to call in an accountant to help on his income...
Bashful Side. After he got his prize, Ray Gene was directed to a sleek yellow convertible that was to take him on a triumphal ride around Kansas City's Royal arena. He took one bashful look at blonde Laura Carol Tarrant, queen of the American Royal show, perched above the car's back seat, and tried to slide in beside the driver. Told that he was to ride beside the queen, Ray Gene climbed to his place and was greeted with a congratulatory kiss, planted firmly on his flaming cheek...
...livestock stalls. There, as he polished the coat of his Hereford steer, he relaxed and talked about past F.F.A. conventions. "I got married last April," he said, "so I have to stay in a hotel with the wife this year. Always before when I came to the Royal I bunked right here with the cattle. It's hard to be away from the cattle...
That was the beginning of the famed Comstock Lode, but it was 15 years before it really paid off-when it became the royal domain of four shrewd Irishmen. In just one year (1874) each became a multimillionaire. Oscar Lewis, annalist of San Francisco and author of a good book (The Big Four) on the builders of the Central Pacific, has written a thoughtful history of the men who exploited Corn-stock's richest ore. He makes it clear that the West as a whole gained nothing from this strike but a prolonged fever and a legend...