Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present the United States is producing only about half as much per acre as the intensely cultivated European countries, such as England. Denmark, and Belgium. Taking a soldier's ration as the standard, the European countries produce about one soldier's ration from three acres of land. We produce only one ration from six acres today. If we increase our effectiveness of production to the European standard, which is about the limit, we would be able to produce about 170,000,000 soldiers' rations...
University Controls Much of Land...
...first score it was determined that a great deal of the land between Massachusetts Avenue and the Charles, is in the possession of the Corporation as had been supposed. This had been made possible through the efforts of two groups of graduates who twenty years ago banded together for the sole purpose of buying land for the University. The first of these groups called themselves the Riverside Associates. Their activities were described by Professor Edward W. Forbes '95 in an interview yesterday...
...banded together," he said, "to buy up land between Plympton and Dunster Streets and Mt. Auburn Street and the River. We succeeded in buying most of this property and then we tried to obtain some between Mt. Auburn Street and the Yard in order to get a connecting link between it and the new property...
...second group who undertook the purchase of real estate in behalf of the University called themselves the University Associates. Up until 1930 they were highly successful and a good share of the land that they had acquired had been duly handed over to the Corporation. Four years ago, however, when Cambridge landowners had discovered what was going on they had to suspend operations because of rising prices. Following this suspension it seems that the composition of the trust changed and they became an admittedly business group while still retaining in their possession several important and vital plots Among the latter...