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...Rampaging floods ruined thousands of acres of farmland, cost more than 150 lives and 30,000 cattle...
...entitled to an annual ground rent of one snowball from the Munros of Foulis, and a white rose from the Duke of Atholl. The royal real-estate holdings are enormous: estates in Dorset, Wiltshire and Somerset, beaches in Cornwall and Devon, 100,000 acres of farmland, immensely valuable land in London (the south side of Piccadilly Circus, both sides of Regent Street, two theaters, three restaurants and the Carlton Hotel). But Elizabeth "owns" these properties only nominally. They are administered by Crown Commissioners for the benefit of Parliament, under a bargain struck with George III in 1760. In return, Parliament...
...Workers. On the highway southeast of Augusta, Ga., houses are being towed by truck out of the 315 square miles of rundown farmland that must be depopulated. Near the perimeter of the project, 22 miles across, are woods full of trailers. Already there are more than 21,000 workers on the project, and the labor force is expected to peak...
...Charles Allen Thomas, world-famed as a chemist but known to his neighbors as an amateur farmer, was annoyed by the farmland that he owned near Dayton, Ohio. Some parts of the same field yielded well, while other parts yielded badly. Chemical analysis showed that both patches had the same supply of plant nutrients. What was the difference...
Break the Bank. Nowhere was the growth of big & little business more evident to the eye than in an area round Los Angeles' Municipal Airport called "Airport Alley." Two years ago it was nothing but farmland. In 1951, it was the fastest-growing industrial beehive on the humming West Coast. More than 50 plants sprang up almost overnight. Near the Douglas and North American aircraft assembly plants are new factories making everything from jewelry to bathing suits, from power saws to bedding. In two years the value of the land shot from $4,000 to $43,560 an acre...