Word: landed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long run, De Gasperi knew that to prevent a swing to Communism he would need to deliver some promised reforms. The program he announced last week included general promises: land reform (distribution of big estates) and reclamation, stricter tax collections, relief for Italy's two million unemployed...
...regions where the rains had not yet started, Indians slipped into church to pray before the images of their favorite saints, and in the plazas they danced to the ancient Tlaloc, Aztec god of rain. They prayed that the rains might be plentiful, that the brown land might grow green and that this might be the one year in five when crops would be so good that Mexico could feed itself...
...shiny, modernistic office building in Mexico City's Avenida Morelos, the men of the Department of Soil Conservation studied their maps, graphs and statistics, concluded that the chances were small that the Mexican land would feed its people well. Four hundred years ago Cortes had reported that the richness of Mexico was inexhaustible. Since then, the pine forests that held rain water on the mountain slopes have been cut away. The result has been drought. The Indians have lost their skill in terracing their fields, and their lands are gullied and eroded...
...Corn, grown year after year on the same plots, has sapped the goodness from the soil. In the current Harper's Magazine, William Vogt, chief of the conservation section of the Pan American Union, warns that "unless there is a profound modification in its treatment of the land, the greater part of Mexico will be a desert within 100 years." (The peril, warned Vogt, hangs over all Latin America...
...mellow tones of both the land and the Glee Club will descend over the Yard tonight concurrently with the nostalgia-heavy Cambridge dusk to the delight of several thousand seniors, guests, and reunioning alumni...