Word: stockmen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...KGFX. Mrs. McNeil runs the only transmitter (200 watts) within a 200-mile radius of Pierre, the State capital. Her husband, Danna, a railroader on the Chicago & North Western, started it for fun in 1916. Ida took over in 1922, used the station to send out weather reports for stockmen and to let Danna know about the children when he made his run to Rapid City. She read her first hospital list in 1923, has been doing it three times a day ever since...
...jury of farmers and stockmen listened to about 400 witnesses, more than 100 depositions (one of which took four days to read). Jury fees ($21 a week) totaled more than $11,000. In the course of the trial the court bailiff died; one juror became a father ; two became grandfathers...
...Wendell Willkie got some more rest. He lolled on the lawns and terraces of the famous Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. He flew over the tawny Colorado Rockies (from Central City, where he attended a frontier music festival, to Denver, where he chinned with stockmen and sugar-beet growers). He puttered around the International Typographical Union's stock farm, chumming up to Holstein-Friesian cattle. He chatted with the San Francisco Chronicle's bumptious young Editor Paul Smith. He talked campaign strategy with Colorado's Governor Carr, Iowa's farm-minded Governor Wilson, National Chairman...