Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beetle was destroying $15,000,000 of timber annually, while the Government had only five poorly paid entomologists combating the pest; 2) that the Government has failed to make proper provision for leasing its grazing areas to cattlemen who are being ruined by high fees, and uncertain tenure of land; 3) that owners of small tracts of land inclosed in or near Government forest reserves are being squeezed out by large timber interests that lease the Government reserves; 4) that Secretary of the Interior Work was antagonistic to the development of the irrigation projects...
Last week in Scarborough met delegates from nearly every land, at the International Trade Unionist Congress. The embers of British communism were well stirred...
Already half a mile above land, their ship was being drawn with incredible speed by this last, fiercest rod of wind another mile upward...
...Chief Petty Officer Frank Masters had planned to land at Akron from a parachute to visit his wife who had just borne him a son. He was tossed into an Ohio field not so far away with the loss, merely, of his shirt...
...second morning following the fall, the farmer on whose land the 450 ft. stern of the ship fell charged $1.00 to admit each automobile into his field, and 25 cents for each pedestrian. Drinking water was priced at 10 cents a glass...