Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...them you offer brief and intelligent comment, but you present Farmer Campbell's plan without comment, which makes me half afraid that you favor it. The gist of his plan is to industrialize farming and conduct it on a Ford-factory basis. Under his plan, the agricultural land of America would be held by a comparatively few individuals and corporations, and it would be operated by hired labor, just as steel mills and automobile factories are operated. The laborers-the real dirt farmers-would thus be peasants, for they would own neither the land nor the tools of production...
...years the ordinary newspaper is crumbled, cracked, useless with age, even if unthumbed. Rag paper issues will last indefinitely, longer than any paper substance except parchment. A year ago Adolph S. Ochs's New York Times, leader, in many aspects, of all the journals of the land, conceived the rag paper notion and prints a limited supply each day. (See p. 7.) The Patterson-McCormick Chicago Tribune, self-styled "World's Greatest Newspaper," felt called upon to offer a similar service to millionaire subscribers and posterity...
Queen, Victoria, granddaughter of Eng land's great Victoria, dislikes, in common with most Britishers, the bull fight. A sporting, "horsy" nation, they hate particularly to hear of horses blindfolded and torn to pieces in the ring. Marquez cried through the streets of London that bull fighting is not cruel. He proposed to prove it; to fight a bull in London; to show that speed, skill, sportsmanship which England worships are foundations of his trade. No horses would be disemboweled. Instead of killing the bull he would kiss it; tease the beast a little; stroke it; finally plant...
...college woman advanced abruptly to the front of aviation news last week when Ruth Rowland Nichols, Wellesley graduate, flew the first non-stop flight from New York to Miami. The direct route took the plane often out of sight of land; flying 12 hours from field to field. Miss Nichols has made many flights; en route to Miami she piloted the plane for a five hour stretch. With her were Harry Rogers, President of the Rogers Air Line of Miami ; and Major M. K. Lee, business and sportsman. Said Miss Nichols: "Major Lee demonstrated his faith in my flying ability...
IRON AND SMOKE-Sheila Kaye-Smith -Dutton ($2.50). The emotion which Author Kaye-Smith understands most fully, hence describes better than any other, is the emotion which men feel for their land; the humble, genuine, particular patriotism of farmers, squires, men of the soil. In most of her previous books, she has studied this feeling as it colors the loves, hatreds, hungers of poor people. In Iron and Smoke, Humphrey Mallard, heir to a baronetcy, loves his houses better than Isabel Halnaker, the mistress he relinquishes so that, to save his estates, he may marry Jenny Bastow whose father owns...