Word: ranches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...races a day at fees of $10 for a losing mount and $25 for a win (now the rate is often $25 and $50), plus bonuses, plus his contract salary. His income was higher than many bank presidents'. Johnny now breeds horses and cattle on his own ranch, averages close to $100,000 a year by riding. What is his technique for winning a race? Says Johnny, with the air of a man who has made it all clear: "I just keep bitin' and chewin', bitin' and chewin...
...many ex-G.I.s have been joining the Trappists that the Abbey at Valley Falls is overcrowded. The order has bought an 800-acre valley ranch in northern New Mexico, announced the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Clarence Schoeppner, chancellor of the archdiocese of Santa Fe. Two Trappists would take formal possession this week...
...Arizona in the spring of 1947, nursing a troublesome sinus on his 20,000-acre ranch near Sonoita, when the call came from George Marshall. Douglas' name had been proposed for the ambassadorship to Great Britain after the death of Ambassador-designate O. Max Gardner. But the Democratic hatchetmen were against him. Harry Truman told George Marshall that the political ramifications of his appointment would be serious. Replied George Marshall: "The political ramifications will be a lot more serious if this Administration appoints an inferior man as Ambassador to Britain at this time." Marshall won his point...
...mirror spent the night in the little ranch town of Escondido, which was all agog at the honor. At 5 a.m. it began the last lap, up the twisting road to mile-high Mt. Palomar. The pace slowed to a crawl as two trucks pushed the trailer...
...July 1945, Vail was handed a court order, told to go out to a ranch five miles west of town and get Jesusa Rodriguez' two children. Jesusa had been divorced from Geronimo Rodriguez and was supposed to have the children for the next six months. They were living with Geronimo's old man, Felix...