Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good turkey year was 1929 with its mild winter and dry summer. Husbandmen throughout the land raised the largest flock in a decade. Last week as the fowl began to move to market for the Thanksgiving trade, a surplus threatened. Retail prices in New York City, where 12,000,000 Ibs. of turkey will be consumed before Dec. 1, slid down to 50? per Ib.-15? under last year's price, with poultrymen fearful of further declines before...
...steamships in the Great White Fleet), largest landowner (2,000,000 acres in Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Canary Islands, Jamaica, Nicaragua, England, France, U. S.), largest U. S. banana importer (1928: 33,872,000 stems). Last year the Great White Fleet carried 72,000 passengers. On land, United Fruit Co. operates 2,300 miles of railway and tramway, owns herds of 30,000 cattle, 12,000 horses and mules, 1,200 "miscellaneous animals...
...university will bring forth are now young men on their way," said Mr. Swift last week while discussing what he and Barber Bratfish and all other good Chicago University men had most in mind?the induction of Chicago's new president, the youngest big- university president in the land...
There is also a copy owned by Don Diego Cruzat of Pamplona. Navarre, whose ancestors fought in the Holy Land. This gentleman superimposed his escutcheon above the author's autograph, evidently believing it to be of greater importance. He was permitted to add the border azure, three Jerusalem crosses, to his escutcheon...
...Kidder '08 will give an illustrated talk on "Flying with Lindbergh over the Land of the Mayas" at a dinner given tonight at 6.30 o'clock by the class of 1998 at the Harvard Club of Boston...