Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
Fiercely, Miner Clark fought with Miner Daly. They battled for land titles, for the tribal leadership of the outlaw camp. All through the '90s, while Montana was becoming a state, the enemies sparred for position. Clark's great triumph came in 1899. With $431,000, his lieutenants bought him a seat in the U. S. Senate. Their slogan: "Every man who votes for Clark is to be paid, and the men who vote for him without being paid are fools." After he was elected, he poured $30,000 worth of champagne into Helena, the capital...
...believe in temperance. . . . The mothers and fathers of young men and women throughout this land know the anxiety and worry which has been brought to them by their children's use of liquor in a way which was unknown before prohibition. I believe in reverence for law. Today disregard of the prohibition laws is insidiously sapping respect for all law. I raise, therefore, what I profoundly believe to be a great moral issue involving the righteousness of our national conduct and the protection of our children's morals...
Swift rivers tumble through the Canadian forests on their way to the mighty St. Lawrence. Between them, covering vast stretches of the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, lies a great area of choice timber land. Its potential wealth defies estimate. Year after year, an army of men with axes and saws invades it, levies tribute for the busy mills dotting the rivers. But when they have finished, the woods rise stately and tall as before, seemingly an endless source of profit to their owners...
Much of this immensely valuable land belongs to the Crown. But it would be neither seemly nor practicable for the Crown to build its own mills, manufacture its own pulp and paper. Wisely, the Crown has leased its rich timber limits to private companies, allowing them to draw on Canada's inexhaustible resources to supply paper of all sorts to U. S. and Canadian consumers. Of these private companies, the greatest is International Paper Co., operating more than 30 pulp and paper mills, holding timber lands in fee or under Crown lease larger than the combined areas of Connecticut...