Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...labor camp-a portable structure with outdoor privies. But the Puerto Ricans decided to start a boycott of their own, and were threatening to take their case to court. One verdict on the case, however, was already in. Cried Mrs. Polly Rose Balfe, editor-publisher of the weekly Homestead News...
Lenin declared the war in 1920: "The peasant lives in a separate homestead, and he has bread; by that fact alone he can enslave the workers." Five million peasants starved to death when Lenin's grain collectors took the bread force...
...depends on steady advances in U.S. dairy methods. On Carnation Milk Farms, a 1,400-acre show place in Washington's Snoqualmie Valley where Carnation has bred more prizewinning Holstein cows than any other U.S. breeder, only purebreds are allowed. Pride of Carnation's Holsteins is Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a prolific champion that last year smashed the North American record for butterfat production by yielding a whopping 1.511.8 Ibs. in 365 days. But Carnation is even prouder of a bull, Governor of Carnation, which has sired more cows capable of producing more than...
...Roosevelt Raceway, N.Y., the Arden Homestead Stable's Florican, a six-year-old trotter with nothing to show for eight previous starts this year, went as a 15-to-1 shot into the invitational $25,000 American Trotting Championship. When the mile-and-a-quarter trot was over, Florican had not only picked up a $12,500 winner's purse but had also smashed the world mark for the distance by more than four seconds with a time...
...Your June 15 article on the village of Kalavryta is one that would make me mortgage the homestead on TIME'S facts. Early in January 1944 a mid-air collision between many B-17's occurred near this village. Having parachuted within a day's walk of Kalavryta we started south and late in the afternoon came upon this village. The ruins were devastating and still smoldering; my heart skipped a beat, and I thought "Did one of our colliding B-17's land on this village?" It was with little relief that I heard...