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...them best is in the Tent City, a unique colony pitched in a rolling, wooded 100-acre plot adjoining the Fair Grounds. These visitors, 10,000 strong, appear at the Fair year after year, are its backbone. They bring their own tents and by some informal right of domain have title to their permanent tent platforms. Oldest of the oldsters form the elite along Grand Avenue. Newcomers live back in the hills on the dirt roads. They gossip endlessly, help each other with the cooking, washing, children. They are resourceful, warmhearted, commonplace and they are Iowa...
...leasing it to another, or for the purpose of reducing unemployment, is not in our opinion within the scope of the powers delegated to the Government." Thus last week the Sixth Federal Circuit Court in Cincinnati condemned PWA's effort to invoke the right of eminent domain to acquire land for its $400,000,000 slum-clearance and low-cost housing program. Upholding a District Court decision which halted a $1,618,000 housing project in Louisville last January, the Court thereby sanctioned the right of any cantankerous or greedy landowner to block a housing project. Owners...
...white, colonnaded Hermitage mansion, slave quarters and other plantation buildings were purchased by Henry Ford last March for $10,000. Section by section the century-old brick structures were dismantled, barged down the Savannah River, up the Ogeechee to become the seat of the 75,000-acre domain which Mr. Ford has pieced together from 30 antebellum plantations for a winter home in Bryan and Chatham Counties...
...eight frantic days, George's parents, members of the multi-millionaire Weyerhaeuser lumber family whose domain stretches from Wisconsin to Washington, had been dickering with "Egoist" for the boy's return while Federal and local police had reputedly kept hands off. The Weyerhaeusers had got little sleep...
...than a reasonable surplus of its power (TIME, March 4), one amendment authorized TVA to generate power at all dams, transmit and market such power. Other amendments permitted the Authority to up its capitalization from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000, annex the Cumberland River & basin to its domain...