Word: agrarian
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...another 500 billion tons at Kuznetzk, producing 20,000,000 tons a year. Within 100 miles of Kuznetzk there are an estimated 500,000,000 tons of iron ore. In 1912 the total commercial output for the Novosibirsk Region was $33,000,000, and the products were mainly agrarian. In 1937 the total was $533,000,000, and the products were mainly industrial...
...that period Zapata, the wild-riding Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza were all carrying the agrarian revolt toward Mexico City. Padilla was "drafted" as a secretary to one of Villa's generals. In his incongruous stiff collar and city clothes, he joined the Villistas. Forced to flee in 1916, he went first to Cuba, then to Manhattan, which he reached penniless...
...This agrarian Life With Father (Literary guild selection for April) sells the program of the U.S. Soil Conservation in the person of an Oklahoma divine who was also a dirt farmer. It is written by his son Angus. Old McDonald was a man so canny and cantankerous that not only farmers but everybody else chuckle at his antics-the rather stirring antics of a tough old man practicing as well as preaching a primitive American philosophy: that use of the soil is a privilege, not a right, and that its misuse is a sin. The book also tells more about...
...lost a small one. U.S. citizens have claims against Mexico-aside from oil-totaling $40,000,000. In Secretary Hull's office, Mexico agreed to pay these in full by 1956, put up $3,000,000 on account (Mexico has already paid $3,000,000 on agrarian claims), will pay off the rest in $2,500,000 installments...
...Franklin Roosevelt sent his old Chief to Mexico in 1933, there were riots in Mexico City. Mobs stormed the streets, plastered angry posters on walls. But Mexicans quickly calmed down when they saw Josephus Daniels, heard his speeches, realized that he was an oldtime apostle of free silver and agrarian reform...