Word: homestead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that initiation fees will have to be increased to so exorbitant a degree that membership will off that account be not desirable. The alternative will be for the fraternities and clubs to disband, after selling the old homestead at a considerable loss. Yours Truly, H. J. Freed...
...Federal Government through the years had doled out its domain to its citizens to homestead, to the railroads to develop new territory, to prospectors to exploit. For the asking and a promise to live there homesteaders could, and still can, get 160 acres, stockmen 640 acres. In 1902 when most of the good farming land was gone the U. S. began reclaiming the desert by irrigation. Today some 600,000 persons cultivate 3,200,000 acres of land reclaimed at a cost...
...Prohibition Unit but also for U. S. grape-growers, especially in California, who prepare legal grape juice for shipment to urban customers who, in turn, let it ferment naturally to wine. There was one catch: the court ruling covered only home-made wine from raw materials gathered on the homestead, not from materials purchased elsewhere...
Active head of the new bank will be Clyde Edward Brenton, 61. The Brentons are an old Iowa banking family, with homestead at Dallas Center, 24 miles west of Des Moines. The late William Henry Brenton founded a private bank at Dallas Center, and extended it into a chain. He also acquired Iowa farm land. When he died his sons inherited the banks and 10,000 acres of land. Clyde Brenton has no children of his own, so he adopted Harold, his nephew, who, now 30, married and father of two children, is the sole heir to the Brenton fortune...
United Aircraft & Transport, by a stock trade, last week, acquired control of Standard Steel Propeller Co., West Homestead, Pa., maker of air propellers from aluminum alloy. United Aircraft was also organizing Northrup Aviation Corp. to take over the assets of John K. Northrup's Avian Corp., which is developing a new type of all-metal plane at Los Angeles. Recently United acquired Sikorsky Aviation Corp. (amphibians) and Stearman Aircraft Co. (commercial planes), is negotiating for Douglas Aircraft Co. (sport planes...