Word: woodlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Within minutes after President Kennedy announced the U.S. wheat sale to Russia and its satellites, telex machines started clattering in a 63-room French provincial mansion in the woodland outside Minneapolis. From this unlikely headquarters, messages went out to the far-flung arms of the biggest U.S. grain dealer: Cargill, Inc. Though it is a secretive, inbred and inconspicuous company, Cargill (pronounced with a hard g, as in fish-gill) is a $1.5 billion-a-year giant with more than enough wheat capacity to handle the entire sale of 150 million bushels to Russia. Despite its size and predominance...
...COBB Woodland Hills, Calif...
...suit. He would work without stopping for 15 hours at a stretch, would often compulsively paint a picture on top of another before the first was even dry. Clients who thought that they had bought a harvest scene would find that it had turned into a woodland before it was delivered...
...others: Torn Mix, William S. Hart, Harry Carey, Buck Jones) in the 1920s and '30s, earning $14,500 a week at the peak of his career, and letting it slip through his fingers like quicksilver until in his last years he was almost broke; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Inside there was air conditioning, wall-to-wall carpeting and dishwashers, and the price was right: $12,950 to $16,950. The builder of Woodland West did little more than dig foundations and pound nails. In everything else, from making elevation surveys to placing newspaper advertisements, the development is the work of L. C. Major & Associates of Downey. Calif., pioneers in the art of tractitioning...