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...corporate offices to the country. Now, the movement is spreading to smaller cities. Last week the Connecticut General Life Insurance Co., which has outgrown its headquarters in Hartford (pop. 177,397), announced that it will build a $10 million ranch-type office building on 268 rolling acres of farmland five miles northwest of Hartford. It found that it could not only save on the cost of building, but could give its employees many more facilities than in a city headquarters, thus make it easier to get help...
...India, $7,500,000, to finance the world's biggest fleet of heavy tractors. By plowing under the tough kans grass that has overrun millions of acres, the tractors will bring land back into cultivation. Within two years, India expects to have 1,500,000 more acres of farmland, enough to produce $35 million a year in wheat...
Prophets of agricultural doom are fond of saying that U.S. farms are rapidly losing their fertility and will some day turn into sterile wastelands. This is not happening in one long-cultivated U.S. region. C.L.W. Swanson. chief soil scientist of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, says that the farmland of New England, which was not naturally fertile when the Pilgrims landed, has been made fertile by proper farming methods, and is growing more productive all the time...
...mystery man behind Facts Forum: Dallas' H. L. (for Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt, 64, who "may be the richest man in America," with an income from oil, natural gas and farmland estimated to be more than $200,000 a day.* Oilman Hunt is so shy of publicity that he is rarely photographed and his name does not even appear in Who's Who in America. He refused to see Reporter Bagdikian, but he did talk to him over the phone and answered some written questions. As a "nonprofit national educational organization," Hunt's Facts Forum is tax exempt...
...Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...