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...price of U.S. farm land has been creeping up for 25 years, and lately the creep has turned into a sprint. On top of a 6% increase in 1964, farmland prices across the nation jumped another 6% last year, according to the Agriculture Department. In many areas, the gain was even greater. In Iowa's corn belt and Florida's citrus area, land prices have climbed 10% in the past year. Crop land in Sedgwick County, Kans., now brings $400 an acre, 32% more than it did only two years...
Nice fella really. Says his name is Albert Fine. He's very explicit that you shouldn't injure anything. Probably a peace creep...
...issued for the first time in the U.S., this is the opera's only recording. Mosè is closer in spirit to the oratorios of Handel and Haydn than to Rossini's own sparkling Barber of Seville, though a few light lovely Italian airs occasionally creep into the repertoire of the Egyptians. Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni, as Moses, sounds too muffled and unfocused to convince anyone to follow him into the Red Sea, but the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli play and sing splendidly. Tullio Serafin conducts...
...eventually lost $35 million on commercial sales of the Connie, the plane returned to the air, set speed records for four-engine piston craft that may never be broken, and airlines still fly 455 Constellations in a day when anything that isn't a jet is considered a creep. Again, in 1959, when Lockheed's Electra turboprops began coming apart in midair, the company's sales of passenger planes crashed with them. Burdened with a $25 million bill for modifying Electras, which have since performed splendidly, and a $31 million loss on its ten-passenger executive JetStar...
...others of immortal Fame have exulted before me! A field which incloses the whole Circle of Science and Literature, the History, Wisdom, and Virtue of all Ages. Shall I dare to expatiate here in full Career, like the Nobler Animals, that range at large, or shall I blindly, basely creep, like the male, or the mussell?--Tell...