Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government discovered that its encouragement of sheep-raising was a grave mistake. The Navajo country was so disastrously overgrazed that the land was washing away with every rain and blowing away with every wind. The U.S. ordered the Indians to begin doing away with their flocks...
Early Bird. Ray Gene owns 40 acres of land, rents an additional 360, and is in partnership with his uncle in farming an other 400 acres. He also manages his own herd of 28 Angus cattle, with 22 calves...
...Distribute sane literature. In the land of Rabelais, Montaigne, Voltaire, Moliere, Anatole France, Rimbaud, Eluard and Louis Aragon, there can be no support for a propaganda tending to lower the spiritual values...
...over hills and trails on his "historical walks," listened to his authoritative reports of early battles and settlements. He became top adviser to the local historical societies. He led a WPA expedition to look for lead marker plates, buried by the French in 1751 as claim to the land, and found two, just where he said they would be. The Greene County Historical Society thereupon appropriated $20,000 and worked nine years to put the Horn diaries and papers into a three-volume...
...busiest airline terminal and sometimes one of the world's most dangerous. Its runways are short and crowded. When the weather is bad, as many as 25 planes "stack-up" within the airport's control area, milling about under radio guidance, and waiting their turn to land...