Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rich. Indeed, they have what not only the United States, but every country needs for the cultivation of industry; valuable woods of various kinds, including, of course, the rubber tree; sugar plantations, coconut groves, orange, banana and pineapple farms. The waters teem with fish. Cattle are successfully raised. The land is fer tile. The climate benign...
...Nationalization of land, mines, minerals and railways...
...affairs, rode about his plantation, distracted his loneliness with the pursuits that became a gentleman-drinking, dicing, riding. Sometimes he talked politics. Citizen Genet was rebuked; the country expanded westward; John Adams was elected President; Jefferson, with his large affectation of the homespun, became a power in the land. By degrees Bale became concious that he, always a staunch Federalist, was owning loyalty to a party discredited. He affixed to his hat the black cockade of his ances tors, and broke his riding-whip over the head of any man who looked askance at it. There were times when, whatever...
...MacMillan, 49, Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College, is experiencing his ninth polar expedition. He was on Peary's Expedition (1908-09) when the latter discovered the North Pole. For two years he did ethnological work among the Esquimaux. He has been the leader of the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-17) and the Baffin Land Expedition...
...study of American farming is, however, strangely partial. It leaves out of all account what the farmer earned during 1915-1920, under very high prices for farm produce and reasonable labor and other costs. It omits all his profits from land speculation, except to charge their resultant losses against 1920-1922 earnings. Nor does it dwell upon present high prices for grain and cotton...