Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Rupert 99, son of the famous Hereford, Hazford Rupert 81, was calved on March 23, 1942 on the Sulphur (Okla.) ranch of Roy Turner, now governor of Oklahoma. As Rupert approached adolescence, his general shape and beefiness (as well as his distinguished ancestry) gave promise that he would develop into a bull of bulls. On Jan. 10, 1944, he was sold, unproven, to Glad Acres Farms at Dallas for $38,000-a record for white-faced Herefords...
...husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about milk-rich Holsteins, convinced him that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave up as a breeder, decided to become a broker...
...Nebraska and South Dakota had been hit by 18 in 27 days. There had been incessant cold-temperatures had fallen as low as 40° below zero. Howling winds piled the snow in endless dunes. On the range, feed was buried deep; springs, watering troughs and streams were frozen; ranch houses were isolated, thousands of miles of roads were lost in drifts. Snow even covered the Mojave Desert...
...third was "El Rancho," a convertible painted "in the singing thunder of a Mexican Dawn" (brown), and soon to be driven by Cadillac Boss John F. Gordon on his Arizona ranch. It has kip-side suede trim, antiqued silver hardware, steer-head escutcheons on the doorsills, and saddle-stitched pistol holsters on the doors. The fourth "sybaritic specimen" was a sedan in "Caribbean Day Break" (green), which would go to some other G.M. executive...
Saskatchewan farmers were cautious about taking delivery of cars, trucks and tractors they had ordered when the world wheat famine seemed to assure endless prosperity. Many took delivery simply to resell-and then found that there was little or no profit to be had. At Edmonton fur auctions, ranch mink and ermine prices were down 35%. British Columbia lumbermen were cutting the price of lower grades, and they saw more cuts in prospect...