Word: year
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clothed and protected them, in return got their cheap and sometimes skillful labor. With some 40 Paraguayan Gauchos Lohman and the Indians wrangled horses, fenced the Chaco's deadly brackish swamps, found sweet water for the cattle, and did their best to keep rustlers away. By last year, Lohman was selling 20,000 steers a year at $15 a head...
...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...
Early this year, Lohman considered selling out and going back to Texas. But nothing came of the idea. Last week, caudillo-like, he was holding court at Red Wells-now promising a young Indian more corn for his squaw, now buying 30 cattle from a small rancher so that the man could pay for his wedding. "I think my place is right here in the Chaco," he said. "That's where I belong...
...severe form, polio or "infantile paralysis" is an uncommon disease. Last week, scare headlines reported that 1949 had already produced about 11,000 cases in the U.S.-a record total for so early in the year. But even so, there were 13,000 who had escaped the disease for every one who was stricken. Comparing 1949 with former years, health officers in New York City, Detroit and Chicago saw reason to hope that the outbreak was at or near its peak, and would soon taper...
Usually the peak comes in the 36th week of the calendar year or the 26th week of the "polio year" (which begins after the low point in mid-March). This year, since the disease got off to a flying start in an early hot spell, the peak may well come early. In the South, where polio strikes sooner, new cases reported have already leveled off and should decline from now on; the North may have to wait three or four weeks for a drop...