Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a bill to declare forfeited to the U. S. Government claims to land grants asserted by the Northern Pacific...
...refusal of public-land States, notably Wyoming, Montana. Utah and Colorado, to participate in any interstate conservation compact until the U. S. Government "substantially modifies" the order issued by President Hoover last March curtailing oil development leases and explorative drilling by permit on U. S. lands. These States, deprived of royalty oil revenue by the Hoover order, were in no co-operative mood at Colorado Springs...
...Once the Champagne was a wine-growing land. Red and white wines grew there, wines of charming tint. . . . But when in 1670 the sinister cellarer of the Abbey of Hautvilliers, Dom Perignon, as baneful a man as the monk Schwartz, inventor of gunpowder, created explosive wine and fiendishly invented the skullduggery by which the honest wines of Champagne became the favorite drink of debauchees, at one blow he ruined the honor of his country and made it prosperous...
...century-old real estate dream came true last week in Baltimore. Back in 1828 Peter Cooper, Manhattan financier and philanthropist, of Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent...
...modern Canton includes about three miles of water front, 1,700 acres of land, many a pier, warehouse and factory. It includes also the short (32 miles) but vital Canton R. R., connecting Canton with Baltimore's trunk lines. But, though the importance of Canton increased with the years, the Baltimore & Ohio still failed to purchase...