Word: acree
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt sitting in his study, was less than human if he did not smile. Nature, which allowed the cotton farmer 170 lb. for his average acre during the ten years preceding 1933, was about to bestow a bountiful 223 lb. per acre, equal to 151 S's, highest...
* Sisal hemp, or henequen, is a fibrous plant used for twine, cordage, etc., second only to manila hemp in strength. Last year Yucatan's 250,000 acre henequen plantations produced one-third of the world's needs.
Although President Davis will head a new operating company formed to run the school, Widow Ament will retain control of National Park Seminary Co. which owns its "physical properties." These comprise a woodsy 200-acre campus with 44 buildings, including eight resident clubhouses built in the style of various nations...
Mound Bayou had something well worth celebrating. Since the colonists moved in, usually paying $7 an acre for their land ($1 down and the rest in five equal annual installments), they have come a long way. Mound Bayou proper now has about 800 inhabitants, the entire colony about 8.000 colonists...
Near Hugo, Colo., when Farmer Hutchins went to bed one evening last week, three-inch green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was...