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If prostitution is the world's oldest profession and gambling the most profitable, what have you got when you combine the two? A gold mine-or so South Korea's ruling junta thought when it dreamed up Walker Hill, a sprawling, 156-acre complex of gaming tables and...
Flashy Stripes. To buy the film and use it costs $58 per acre, and savings in weed control average $12 per acre. At present prices for cotton, the grower would earn an extra $38 per acre by using film. Spencer Chemical Co. and Union Carbide, which manufacture the film and...
When the blight struck in 1845. the eponymous Sir Robert Peel was Prime Minister, the heir of nearly 700 years of British domination, which had left more than 8,000,000 Irish living like pigs-and sometimes with them under the same sod roof. A visiting Frenchman found in Ireland...
Freeman claims that his 1962 feed grain program was a "dramatic success." He points to sharp drops in the CCC's inventories of corn and other feed grains. That claim is sharply disputed by President Charles Shuman of the National Farm Bureau Federation, biggest of U.S. farmer organizations. Freeman...
Kick the Wind. Cornell owes its uniqueness to an unlikely alliance during the civil war between two New York state legislators: Ezra Cornell, the self-taught Quaker millionaire who organized Western Union, and Andrew D. White, an urbane Yaleman and sometime history professor. White dreamed of giving New York one...