Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Corps shows community groups of farmers how to combat soil-wastage, has built 4,400,490 dams to check erosion. It also digs and maintains ditches for drainage districts organized by local governments and cooperatives. Today it looks to the 84,400,000 acres of U. S. farm land requiring drainage as one of its most useful future fields of operations...
Muddle No. 2: the complacency with which the ship's crew plowed on deeper into icing weather after they knew they were in trouble. Forty-nine minutes before she crashed, the Cavalier radioed that she might have to take the desperate expedient of landing in the open sea; 15 minutes before the landing she sent out an SOS. Yet she continued Bermuda-ward, made no effort to locate seagoing vessels near which she might land for quick rescue...
...executive to executive, 15 university experts were consulted, the Federal Housing Administration and Department of Agriculture queried. Finally 80 workers were called in to approve the management's ideas. They did, and last week President Hook announced the creation of Fertile Valleys Homesteads on 60 acres of farm land three miles south of Middletown...
There, on an acre of soil-tested land apiece, 60 modern houses will be built-a two-bedroom size at $4,500, three-bedroom at $5,300. Total cost for the 60 families will be $300,000, financed jointly by the workers, Armco and FHA. To keep costs down, the 60 are now forming their own building company...
Then the changes in land values of particular sites for the last 100 years will be traced through examination of the records in the city's archives. The direction of these studies is practical, pointing toward estimation of costs for different types of Housing developments on the basis of the heights of buildings and percentage of lot coverage...