Word: farmland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crusader Ball had just one week to tell his constituents what he thought about the war, before heading back to Washington. He started his campaign on July 3 at Cannon Falls, in the rich, rolling farmland of southeastern Minnesota. The crowd at the fair grounds, mostly slow-spoken, slow-thinking Scandinavian farmers, was stolid and quiet, but attentive. It was the same story next afternoon at Elbow Lake, when Joe Ball went on right after the hog-calling contest...
Last week in Tokyo the Government went further. Laws were passed for total control of foreign trade, news reports, daily necessities, prices and uses of farmland...
...Town (United Artists) is Grover's Corners, N. H., population 2,200. It is a basic unit of U. S. life, lost in the continental mass of U. S. farmland...
...struggle in Congress. But they had, both of them, a cruelly keen cutting edge, and they were all time forcing the blades ruthlessly into slavery, that new land, and extremists in both way with Kansas. It was beautiful land, the richest prairie of all the continent, with the finest farmland, and the broadest rivers. For a decade and more it had been criss-crossed by the trails of the pioneers--the Santa Fe, the Oregon, and the California Trails all began at Independence, just at the lazy turn the Mississippi. But now it was crossed by grimmer tracks. The Freesoilers...