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Word: acree (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last week, Farmer Frederick Henry Dennis, 34, looked out over his 1,000-acre farm at Poslingford Hall, Suffolk. He saw a strange young man drive a big caterpillar tractor into a 20-acre field of ripe buckwheat and calmly begin to plow in the precious crop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planned Agriculture | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

Red Tape & Resistance. Behind the plowed-in buckwheat lay a story of red tape and planned agriculture. For two years, the Rt. Hon. Tom Williams, a Yorkshireman and Minister of Agriculture & Fisheries in the Labor Cabinet, has been struggling to enforce the plans for Britain's fields. For two...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Planned Agriculture | 9/29/1947 | See Source »

They went in with their eyes and mouths wide open and with little chance to win. The Eighth District is grumpy old Joe Grundy's home territory, one of the best-watered G.O.P. fields in the country. But it attracted the Democratic donkeys like an acre of fresh clover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Down in the Lehigh Valley | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

Mr. King spent an hour and a half at "Woodside," the twelve-acre estate on Spring Street where he lived for nine years. The big, yellow brick house is now owned by the W. L. Mackenzie King Woodside Foundation, which hopes some day to make it a national shrine. Meantime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE PRIME MINISTRY: Native's Return | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

The winery, founded in 1883 by a German immigrant, Carl Wente, is small by California standards. It has only 500 acres of vineyards run by Carl's sons, Ernest, 58, and Herman, 54, who started learning viticulture almost as soon as they could walk. Their wines (trade names: Wente...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEVERAGES: Judgment Day | 9/22/1947 | See Source »

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