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...President Truman and his brother and sister inherited about 600 acres of Missouri farmland from their mother. In various deals since then, the Trumans have sold all but 40 acres at undisclosed prices. When Truman closed the most recent deal last month, selling 220 acres for a housing development to be known as Truman Village, the value of the land was locally estimated as $1,000 or more an acre...
...land values, the report noted inflation and the fact that nowadays it takes more and more land for an efficient unit, which forces farmers themselves to bid up prices. It also added some new factors: increased urbanization and the dispersal of industry, which have diverted millions of acres of farmland for new highways, plants, shopping centers and other nonfarming projects. All combine, said the Agriculture Department, to "create a strong market for farmland"-and they give U.S. farmers solid ground to stand on, whatever the ups and downs...
...Baltic seaports to demand to know why East Germany has made good only a third of its scheduled heavy-goods deliveries to Russia in the first half of 1957. Nikita Khrushchev and Ulbricht took the main show southward on a three-day swing through the Saxon farmland. A state-run corn farm delighted him; he pointed to stalks 9 ft. high, and recommended the "king of the plants" to East Germans as "sausage on a stalk...
...benign climate, this open-toed, pastel empire last week beat with a great hum-thrumming vitality. On Wilshire Boulevard, rivet guns prattled into the fresh steel of new office buildings. The reiterated whop of the hammered nail rang out in a 6,000-house development on San Fernando farmland, in a 17,000-house subdivision in the tawny hills 40 miles to the southwest in Palos Verdes-and wherever bulldozers sliced down citrus groves to make room for more. From the swarms of workers in electronics and aircraft plants came one big, tumultuous earache. And millions of nerves throbbed with...
...rich, black loam of Italy's Po River Valley is fertile soil for the seeds of discontent. There, in a densely overpopulated farmland whose every square mile must support 470 people, 80,000 field hands seek work on a puny 132,000 acres of farmland, get their wages-if any-in the wheat and sugar-beet yield of the land itself. With holdings averaging 20 acres or less apiece, the farmers are themselves poor, bitter, hard pressed. For years the richest harvest reaped in the Valley has been one of violence, distrust and hatred...