Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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But custom dies hard in England. To Kingsteignton's rescue came Baron Clifford of Chudleigh, who invited the village's ram-roast committee to the deer park of his 3,000-acre estate, let them shoot a buck. With that slight deviation to modern complexities, the village planned...
Over the years, Saskatchewan wheat farmers had spent many a sleepless night worrying how to meet the mortgage. On an average, they had to net $12 an acre before they showed a profit. In 1927, they averaged $18.91, but in 1932 the yield skidded to $4.76, which spelled wholesale defaults...
By 1944, when Premier Thomas C. Douglas' CCF regime came to power, the province's wheat farmers were sitting pretty, netting $20.03 an acre on wheat, and rapidly reducing their debts. But the socialist CCF figured that this was too good to last. It gave the farmers drought...
He usually golfs on the private approach course on his 300-acre estate at Reigate, Surrey. There, beside the golf course, stands an imposing establishment: a 35-room Georgian house, 20 cottages, swimming pool, tennis courts, a stable, and kennels housing 200 of the best Labradors and pointers in England...
How quickly and how much can he gain on Hollywood? In Britain, if his production reaches 100 pictures a year -the maximum with present studios-he may cut Hollywood to 70% of the total box-office take in the United Kingdom, thus cut the dollar drain on Britain by about...