Word: farmland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom in farm land reached a familiar milestone. After nine years of steady climbing, said the Department of Agriculture, farmland prices had finally hit the peak reached in the post-World War I land boom. Prices rose 7% last year to 205 (1935-1939 equals 100), the 1920 top. And in 32 states, particularly in the southwest where irrigation had increased productivity, land values had long overshot their post-World War I mark...
Claiming the longest continued career in silviculture of any similar institution in the land, the Forest has grown from a tract of miscellaneous woodlots and abandoned farmland of 1907, the year it came into the University hands, into a "model forest" and experiment station for demonstrating forestry practices. In addition, the woodland serves as the University's school of forestry for a student body of five...
...with a kind of quasi-socialism which he describes as "mixed-economy planning." "When the government and private capital are both in industry there can be competition. . . . The democratic world cannot prosper unless the British Labor Government succeeds." At times Author Fischer fumbles all over the ideological map: "Farmland should be as free as air. It should not be bought or sold . . . equality of wealth would eradicate the power advantage now inherent in wealth.. . . Marx and Gandhi might make a fruitful combination." In his honest but disjointed eagerness to defeat "Stalin with Gandhi," Fischer defeats the coherence...
...passing over, residents were amazed to hear birds singing). Hundreds of beach cabanas were blown away, and many a majestic palm was blown down along Palm Beach's famed millionaires' row and at Miami's Hialeah race track. In the 'Glades farmland, citrus, ramie, bean and tomato crops were badly whipped...
...rain had fallen, to speak of, all summer. But last week, instead of gloom, there was jubilation in the short-grass country. A $12,000,000 federal reclamation project was formally opened, promising an end, at last, to floods and drought for 50,000 acres of prairie farmland...