Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Stalin, chief of the Communist Party, and a member, with Kamenev and Zinoviev, of the so-called Bolshevik Triumvirate, last week addressed peasants' representatives, promised to grant land leases to the peasants for at least 20 years, perhaps 40 years, perhaps in perpetuity, which means unconditional return to private ownership...
...peasant representatives, who had threatened not to sow crops or to improve the land unless long leases were made and guaranteed, were flabbergasted, as well they might be. They asked if this new policy did not run counter to the Bolshevik Constitution and received in reply from Stalin: "We wrote the Constitution. We can change it also...
Another factor in MacMillan's favor this trip will be the weather. He made his last try for Crocker Land at the beginning of an Arctic winter. With 24 hours of daylight to work in, he expects to accomplish in a few days what it used to take months...
...seemed not unlikely, therefore, that Amundsen, too, might search for Crocker Land; might set foot thereon, if such a land exists, and claim it for Norway. As Amundsen plans to fly north in June and MacMillan does not leave Maine until June 15, the chance of Amundsen's making a prior claim seemed nearly as good as the chance of anyone finding anything to claim...
...Other evidence of the existence of a large body of land west of Axel Heiberg Land has been "found" in studies of ice formations that seemed to have passed over shoals; in tidal variations observed in Greenland and Alaska; in the mystery surrounding the nesting habitat of certain migratory birds. Should a new continent be discovered, its chief importance might be. 1) for the establishment of air-routes between Europe and Eastern Asia via the Pole; 2) for the land body's influence on North American weather conditions...