Word: landed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Peace cannot be built when a country treads on the land and sovereignty of another . . . When the Israeli Foreign Minister says we can sit and negotiate and go halfway, I answer: Halfway is, for us, to lose our land and our sovereignty...
...careless of time and of history, down down into the fading gray all-nite movie theatre pool hall used car lot out front of Dreamland, a Jungian slide show punctuated by snatched conversations and bits of song, run by the Prince Emmanuel himself, down in the Prince Emmanuel's land. Dreamland...
...regulations were enforced creatively, encouraging cooperative investment in land and equipment, the farms might be even more prosperous. An article in the 1972 San Francisco Sunday Examiner describes one such project...
...resident farmers declined from 40,000 to 29,000 in California; from 11,000 to 6,000 in New Mexico; and from 156,000 to 81,000 in Texas. Though there are still tens of thousands of small farmers, they presently control a relatively small percentage of the land. In California, farms averaging 8400 acres make up 23 out of a total of 35 million acres of farm land; in New Mexico, farms averaging 14,000 acres comprise 35 of the 38 million farm acres in the state...
...America's agricultural workers. Enforcement of the acreage restriction could lead to the creation of thousands of new farms and help destroy the two-class system of agriculture prevalent in many parts of the west. On farms of 14,000 acres hundreds of people who could own their own land serve instead as employees subject to the whim of a landowner who has the power to decide who works and for how much. The men, women and children who work in the fields and groves of the west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work...