Word: acree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whither Younger Sons? How much heed the young men of Quebec would give to the plea was questionable. Once predominantly rural, Quebec is now (next to Ontario) the most urban province.* Almost 95% of its 155,000 farmers own their farms. But they cannot afford to buy new land in...
Like most farm wives, talkative, plumpish Amy Kelsey has chores aplenty. Near British Columbia's Creston (pop. 1,153) she helps her husband tend their ten-acre fruit farm, keep their unpainted frame house pin-neat, still finds time to collect stamps, grow prize wheat and corn. Thirty-five...
Last April she sowed a third of an acre to hard red spring wheat, harvested a 200-Ib. crop by hand in mid-July. She sieved, cleaned and polished the individual kernels. Then she spent eye-straining days with a bright light and magnifying glass hand-picking the best 15...
Now, with the Bank of America loan, Trousdale plans to build 8,000 rental units on 450 acres of it, along with a 26-acre super-shopping center. Eventually he hopes to build a hundred 13-story apartment houses on the rest of the land.
Left by the dead who, in their moonless acre,