Word: landed
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...about to invest in Plains. At least 34 corporations have registered in Plains (cost: $3) in order to use the town's name on theie letterheads. A few outsiders, slick or not, have made more substantial investments. A group of Canadian investors recently purchased 190 acres of farm land outside town for $325,000. They hope to install a campground and amusement park. A Georgia representative of Holiday Inns has looked into building a small motel on the highway between Plains and Americus...
...more guilty of plundering Plains than local residents. Maxine Wiggins, whose farmer husband recently suffered a heart attack and can no longer work, is involved in the Plains Realty Co.'s sale of 1-in. square lots, at $11 each, of what was once Carter farm land. The Williams family, longtime business and social rivals of the Carters, are mainstays of the cheap souvenir trade. So is Hugh Carter, the President's first cousin and deacon in the Baptist church. Hugh now keeps his store open on Sundays, although he once said he never would. Billy Carter...
...Sale signs have sprouted like peanut plants in Plains. In some cases the motive is profit, in others the goal is flight. Land that was selling for $600 or $700 a year ago is now carrying price tags of $5,000 an acre and up (to a high of $25,000 an acre). William O. Cochran, a farmer who moved with his family to Plains three years ago, attempted to auction off publicly his 1,056 acres after an expensive publicity buildup. Cochran received a high bid of $1.2 million, but mysteriously refused...
...several years, there has existed an ideological rift between members of the visiting committee, who believe the GSD should place more curricular emphasis on professional skills in certain departments, and President Bok and the GSD administrators, who want to integrate the study of social problems such as community politics, land financing and government regulation. It is difficult for someone outside the field of architecture to judge the strengths of each argument. But instead of seeking to evaluate the validity of the divergence, the Overseers are apparently choosing to ignore it, perhaps hoping for a more complimentary--and confidential--report next...
...defense witness testified Saturday that a group of mostly Indian men were participating in a religious ceremony on public land which they had permission to use when a noise complaint from a nearby resident prompted police to arrest 11 men last July...