Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comeback. Harry Ferguson, who lost his tractor supplier when Henry Ford II bowed out (TIME, July 21, 1947), completed a new $11.5 million, 72-acre factory in Detroit. He expects to get into production in 60 days, turn out 250 tractors a day within a year.
There were 40 priests in the first class in 1889. Today, after 59 years, coed "C.U."* stands out in scholarship among the 167 U.S. Catholic universities and colleges the way Notre Dame stands out in sports. Its enrollment is bulging: 4,182 students in winter, an even more influential summer...
Last year the Amazon produced 8,800 tons of jute, almost half of what Brazil used (for coffee bags). At 16? a pound, jute from the Amazon yielded a return of over $200 an acre.
The world's largest commercial airport opened last week. Its official name was New York International Airport, but millions of New Yorkers knew it as "Idlewild," the name of a golf course that it displaced. The 4,900-acre airport (on Long Island, 38 minutes' drive from Manhattan...
With his prosperity (he owns a 640,000-acre ranch in Arizona, supports 100 model farms from Maine to Wisconsin), Charlie Ward has also won prominence. He is a 32nd-Degree Mason. For his gifts to churches and charities, he has been commended by Pope Pius XII. He also remembers...