Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trees to make this paper grow for the most part on Crown land, land technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been...
Montreal rumors were to the effect that Premier Taschereau, backed by Ontario's Ferguson, had strongly hinted that unless I. P. & P. was willing to raise its price, Crown land leases would be canceled, timber land reallocated to Canadian pulp mills now shut down...
...particularly impressed by the respect which the men show their womenfolk. The Americans are a fine people. Let no one tell you differently." Since September, Dublin playgoers have been learning from Ever the Twain, a play by Irish Dramatist Lennox Robinson, that the U. S. is a land of gumchewers, gunmen, gigolos, gin mills. "Remembering what I saw with my own eyes," boomed Chief Justice Kennedy, "I can only describe Robinson's play as a lampoon...
...suppression of the Cortes (parliament). Even in exile Don José remained the acknowledged leader of Spain's parties of the Left. Last January his followers perfected elaborate plans to stage simultaneous risings of Spanish garrisons on a certain day. On that day Exile José Sanchez Guerra was to land at Valencia, proclaim and lead the revolution...
...kingless Kingdom of Hungary is still a country of great landed estates in the hands of a few very wealthy men. Far more than cash does the ownership of even a few acres of land bring prestige to a Hungarian peasant. "Land hunger," greed to increase their holdings by hook or crook, is a besetting vice of the Magyar. Fear lest their acres should have to be subdivided is one reason why Hungarian landowners seldom have more than one child. Tenant farmers are notably more prolific...