Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...francs (about $1,700,000,000) ; receipts amounted to only 26,500,000,000 francs (about $1,400,000,000). The difference-about 6,000,000,000 francs-is to be met by rigorous enforcement of the income tax law and the imposition of a new tax on land values...
...fortresses of impregnable steel, Hogarth blew up a few liners, destroyed the British fleet, established a toll (sea rent) on all passing vessels, finally took over England in the capacity of regent, in order to put into operation his panacea for the ills of the world-a system of land tenure by the nation, not by the individual. The Jews he commanded to return to Palestine...
Happily, he was a resourceful superman. Having failed as Lord of the Sea, he went to the Holy Land just in time to be acclaimed as the Messiah of the Second Coming. He marI ried Rebekah and for 60 years ruled...
...trophy of 1908. He won the Gordon-Bennett speed trophy at Rheims, France, in 1909; and, in 1910, was recipient of The New York World's $10,000 prize for a flight from Albany to Manhattan. His was the world's first amphibious plane, which went from land to water and from water back to land in 1911. The multi-motored seaplane was his invention, beginning with the America (1914), culminating with the NC4 (1919), first craft to make a transoceanic flight, going from Rockaway, L. I., to Plymouth, Eng. During the War, his company built large numbers...
...bulletin of the Bureau of Education related how one Martin, able farmer, had given up his land, had moved to town, had said: "The school business is what drove me off the farm...