Word: land
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Came First. The only known visitor to the kappa country is Patient No. 23 in an insane asylum near Tokyo, who claims to have lived for months in the land of the kappa. No. 23 found the kappa pleasant, if unpredictable people, with their traditions often the reverse of human customs. They believe, for example, that the first kappa was a woman, who could not abide living alone. God pitied her and, taking her brain, created a male companion. His only instructions to the new couple were to eat, multiply and live as expansively as possible...
...fire turned inland and fanned out across the narrow peninsula. Offshore, watchers saw soft. flames above the treetops. On land, hundreds of begrimed and weary men fought the fire. In its first six days, the fire (one of more than 50 burning in Canada last week) blackened more than 20 square miles of forest. It was already one of the worst forest fires in Nova Scotia's history. At week's end, veteran rangers despondently thought that only a 48-hour downpour would stop...
...Africa' movement. I am simply trying to show the Negro his African heritage and make him see that his culture had a dignity and strength and cleanliness. . . . I don't know yet what I have to say about my own life or place in my own land. But some day I hope to be able to say, 'This is my expression, this is what I have...
Critics of the present system, under which there are basing points scattered through the land, have sought to replace it with an "F.O.B. mill" formula, whereby the customer would pay the actual freight charges. The industry contends the basing point setup is virtually F.O.B. mill. Steelmen were also quick to point out that they had been using the present system since 1924, when FTC outlawed the "Pittsburgh plus" system, which made Pittsburgh the basing point for the whole country. They suspected aloud that all the sudden hollering was just a political maneuver to take housewives' minds off high prices...
...Newcomers. Aside from their contacts with Johnson, many of the present owners-including an ex-Army officer and an editorial writer-had no particular qualifications to operate a restaurant except some loose cash. The cost of land and construction (ranging from $50,000 to $90,000), plus a minimum of $1,000 which they paid for a Johnson franchise, was their big contribution...