Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...land cursed by violence, the Post has raised its voice firmly, if not always effectively, for moderation. Last spring, when Playwright Ben Hecht was egging on the homeland's terrorists, Agronsky sternly wrote: "You are making yourself responsible for a criminal insanity that is killing Jews as well as Britons...
...help him in his never ending battle to keep the mesquite trees from crowding out the grass on the range. This was a "tree dozer," an oversize tractor with a steel hand to snatch out mesquite. He supplemented this with a "rooter plow" that lifted up a strip of land, killed the mesquite roots and dropped it back with the grass undisturbed. He then turned his hand to grass. Bob's father had brought in South African Rhodes grass. Bob took seed from the best plants, and perfected the strain. Later he developed a fine strain of yellow-beard...
...bearded young lawyer, Robert Justus Kleberg "The First," son of a German émigré. Kleberg won the suit, and King was so impressed that he hired him as his own lawyer. When Captain King died in 1885 at 60, he left his widow, Henrietta, 500,000 acres of land and a $500,000 debt. She asked Bob the First to manage the ranch. Soon he married her youngest daughter Alice...
...ranch sells virtually all its cattle to Swift & Co. to keep from driving down prices by open sales.) Sales of breeding bulls bring in another $150,000 or so. But the expenses are huge, too. Real estate taxes run around $200,000, gasoline and oil take $48,000, land-clearing $120,000. The payroll for the 500 employees is over $400,000. At best guess, the ranch this year should net over $1,000,000 before income taxes...
...follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse thieves. With feet bound in leaves, to make no tracks, the children do the villains out of their horses, their boots, their food, their water; they shadow their prey pitilessly in their effort...