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...system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys with Geiger counters and shovels. When you went up on the mesa they popped up behind every bit of sagebrush like Indians. But few did any good...
Based on Uncle Clem's Boy, by the late Mrs. Will Rogers (played by Jane Wyman), the picture traces Rogers' career from Oklahoma cowpuncher to Wild-West-show trick roper, vaudeville lasso artist-monologist, and poet lariat and sagebrush sage of stage, screen, radio, banquet table, speakers' platform and syndicated column. The picture ends with Rogers' death at 55, during an Alaskan flight with Wiley Post...
...Lina Elise Grey, widow of the prolific sagebrush writer Zone Grey, offered his collection of manuscripts, seashells, big-game and fish trophies to Zanesville, Ohio, if the home town would promise to house them in a suitable memorial...
...entire town of Virginia City, Nev. and nearby residents were invited to be the saloon guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...
...sagebrush, the bureau's experimental farms, now watered from pumped wells, look like green postage stamps pasted on brown paper. One acre of their pasture supports three head of cattle. The bureau's farmers have harvested 160 bushels of grain sorghum per acre, five tons of alfalfa hay, 32 tons of sugar beets. The U.S. average is 23.1 bushels of sorghum per acre, 2.23 tons of alfalfa, 14.8 tons of beets. Figures like these excite the settlers, who clamor for many times as much land as can be watered next season...