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...leftist told me, "Not even the Communists stayed." So Finland has ruthlessly had to requisition living space. Every person over ten years old is allowed one room (two children under ten count as one adult). Many houses and apartments have three times their pre-armistice dwellers. Farmland is being requisitioned even more ruthlessly. People with a job and a house in town, plus a farm, must give up one or the other. Big farms have been slashed into small units-so small that many of them are economically impractical. That helps explain why Finland's agricultural output last year...
...chartered ship. The D.P.s, mostly of Dutch extraction, will be carried (2,000 at a time) to Paraguay. There they will find two flourishing colonies settled in the late '20s by Mennonite refugees from Russia and Canada. They will be supplied by the Mennonite Central Committee with farmland, tools and seed with which to take up again their simple, religious lives...
...bloody revolution begun by mild little Francisco Madero in 1910 cracked the feudal system and released three-quarters of a million peasants in mud-floor serfdom from the grip of a few hundred landowning families. But the revolutionaries themselves lived on and despoiled the country, which never had enough farmland (only 12% potentially arable...
Harvardman Merwin knows the value of gossip for a farmland paper (two-thirds of the Pantagraph's circulation is outside of Bloomington-pop. 34,000), keeps 95 reporters, mostly women, feeding it in from as many Illinois small towns. But his local reporting doesn't stop with box socials and births. He once used the Pantagraph to promote one of the best art shows ever held in the Midwest, proved that Illinois farmers by the thousand would pay two bits to see an El Greco...
...sharp stop. On a trip to the Lake District she met and later married William Heelis, a gentle, retiring country lawyer. Mr. Potter was furious, but from then on, says Author Lane, Beatrix "deliberately buried Miss Potter of Bolton Gardens and became another person." She invested her royalties in farmland, flung all her energies into raising sheep. She invented a trap for catching maggot-flies, wrote knowledgeably to friends about housewifery and cooking ("Wm. prefers blue smoke before the bacon is laid on the frying pan"). As the years passed, her gentle, shy face assumed something of the granite features...