Word: landed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prize meant that he had outstripped 27,000 other small holders and croppers in meeting the South's biggest agricultural problem: how to make the poorer farm families self-sufficient. Asked what he would do with his $600, Farmer Majure mused: "Guess I'll buy some more land to go with my 40 acres...
...Merritt Parkway scandal involved a real-estate man, G. LeRoy Kemp, who as the State's agent bought much of the land needed for right-of-way and who allegedly shared in some $86,000 of rakeoff commissions with two real-estate agents, Thomas N. Cooke of Greenwich and Samuel H. Silberman of Stamford. On the witness stand Mr. Cooke testified that Land Agent Kemp used to tip him off as to acreage the State wanted, that Cooke then arranged for the purchases and they split commissions of $32,814.92. Mr. Silberman testified to giving Kemp another...
...these refugees that it had taken two months of hardship to reach where they were last week, somewhere between Ichang and Chungking, that it probably would take them another month to scramble through the Yangtze gorges to their goal. They were on their way to China's "promised land" in the interior provinces, far from their enemies...
...provide food for the new land, fields of poppies were ploughed under and sown to rice. For raw materials engineers scoured the back country, opened up veins of coal, iron, copper, salt, many small oil wells...
...wagons would lead blessed lives. The Czech crisis and the German pogroms were excuses for severe nationalistic outbreaks. In Johannesburg bearded Fascists fell on a band of antiFascists with iron bars, bicycle chains, knives, revolvers; over 100 were injured. In Benoni a synagogue was blown to the Promised Land...