Word: landed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...events that he spoke of were widespread anti-Soviet rioting. The price was extracted from the remnants of Czechoslovakia's freedoms. The dangers were that the Soviet Union's 70,000 occupation troops would storm out of their barracks and impose direct military rule on the helpless land...
...begins very swiftly in the glorious late-afternoon California sunshine. A short time after the earth starts to shudder, the huge, 20,000-sq.-mi. land mass west of the San Andreas fault wrenches itself free from the continent. San Francisco is quickly reduced to piles of rubble, the Golden Gate and Bay bridges col lapse, skyscrapers topple like children's blocks, the freeways crumple into bent, twisted auto graveyards. The lush Imperial and San Joaquin valleys are in undated by floods unlike anything since the days of the Ark. Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and San Diego all disappear...
...year-old kid who finds out he can't see?"The handsome slugger then took a halfhearted swing at entertainment. At St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Mass., he had proved as accomplished onstage as on the diamond, so he traded on his name to land bookings on Cape Cod and around Boston. He sang once on the Johnny Carson Show and cut several records, but it was clear that he was not destined to be the next Sinatra. Conigliaro could not have cared less. "I would rather have played baseball for nothing," he recalls...
...first Marshall Field, who made much of his $100 million fortune† in land speculation during the late 19th century, once remarked: "Buying real estate is not only the best way, the quickest way and the safest way but the only way to become wealthy." For decades, major U.S. industrial and financial corporations ignored the Field formula, leaving the business of real estate largely to its own local operatives. Now the trend is running the other way. So many huge companies have been expanding into real estate and building that the nation's largest industry, construction, is undergoing...
...logical diversification. U.S. Plywood-Champion Papers runs 35 residential developments in eight states. National Gypsum last month agreed to acquire Florida's Behring Properties Inc., which is building thousands of homes near St. Petersburg and Fort Lauderdale. From its original base in timber, Boise Cascade expanded into both land development and construction by picking up five companies in three years. Now the Idaho-based company aims to become a truly nationwide builder of homes, so far an almost unheard of goal in the highly localized housing business...