Word: montana
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...caught the big operators as well as most of the small farmers. Oklahoma's oil-rich Governor Roy Turner, a breeder of registered Herefords, swallowed hard when his best bull brought only $6,100 at his annual sale last week. Last year his top animal fetched $25,000. Montana's "Wheat King," Thomas Campbell, who said three months ago that he was holding all of his 610,000 bushels, said last week that the wise farmer would still hold on; there might be a pickup in prices because demand was still great. Wisely or not, most grain farmers...
...only other states which permit dog racing: Massachusetts, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, Montana...
Berg has three possible starters for the other forward, Jim Gabler, John Pankey, and Dave Skinner. Gabler, captain of the Freshman soccer team last fall, was a star bucket man at Exeter last fall, Pankey, from Montana, showed both heels as a cross country star this fall. His duties will be as a spitfire, close-to-target escort for his long range bombing teammates...
Onetime agriculture missionary to Russia (in 1929) and Great Britain (in 1941) by Government invitation, white-haired, dapper Tom Campbell owns huge wheat acreage in Montana. On a visit to the White House, Campbell told President Truman that he was withholding all of his current crop-some 610,000 bushels-because he wanted to get as much as he could for it. One way to get farmers to sell, he said, was for the Government to peg the price of wheat at about $3.50 a bushel, some 50? above the current price. The President said he didn't blame...
Down with Boston! Governors of four of the nation's big wool-producing states -Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, and Wyoming-began a concerted drive to break Boston's domination of the wool business. Colorado's Governor William Lee Knous said they would meet in November to discuss the possibilities of processing western wool in the West...