Word: farmland
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...Interstate 90, which goes through upstate New York, a snip of Pennsylvania near Erie, Cleveland and Ohio, Indiana to Gary, where it runs next to the U.S. Steel Works, on past Chicago, veering north-west to the enclave of Madison, Wisconsin, crossing the Mississippi near Dubuque into the boring farmland of southern Minnesota, where Hubert Humphrey was born among grain elevators seen from miles away and welcoming like a pleasure ship to life-raft drifters (not like lush Iowa to the south) into South Dakota, the Badlands and Wall Drug and the Black Hills, a bit of Wyoming...
...very deceptive thing, very weird--tuberculosis under a clear blue sky, bodies eating themselves away in the midst of a lush countryside. When you fly over Bangladesh you have to wonder how a land so green could ever have a food problem. This is the richest and most fertile farmland in the world--nothing in Iowa or the Ukraine can compare to it. The whole country is a delta formed by two of the mightiest rivers in the world, the Ganges and the Brahmaputra. Since the Brahmaputra is essentially liquid topsoil and the Ganges flowing shit, the resource base...
...known to outsiders, but from his "do for self philosophy, which generated black enterprise. As much captain of industry as Messenger of Allah, Muhammad was the supreme ruler not only over 76 temples and some 50,000 to 100,000 disciples, but also over some 15,000 acres of farmland and a complex of small businesses that range from pin-neat restaurants to stores to a 500,000-circulation newspaper. Some estimate the worth of the Nation of Islam's business empire at $75 million. The businesses all have a long-range object: to prepare for the day when...
...oriented Marxism consider Grandpa Joad's line in The Grapes of Wrath "I' m stickin' with my farm until Idie"), and Woody Guthrie's "Roll On Columbia." In which he applauds "Tom Jefferson's vision" which "could not let him rest"--that vision being the endless expansion of American farmland westward...
...earth satellites reveal that the world's most productive land is already cultivated, convenient water sources already tapped and nearly all grazing capacity already in use. Marine biologists worry that the sea, once regarded as a nearly unlimited source of cheap protein, has been overfished. To bring marginal farmland into use round the world would require a massive investment beyond the means of the underdeveloped nations and probably beyond the generosity or administrative cooperation of the developed nations...