Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...council voted 4 to 1 to renew the movie license for a year. It looked as if the great god Progress might yet bring to Sioux Center's Main Street the last detail it needed to make it the duplicate of Main Streets up & down the land: a neon-trimmed marquee and posters showing Betty Grable's legs...
Thus far, the increase has been taken care of chiefly by cultivating new land. But this recourse, Osborn thinks, is pretty nearly exhausted. Almost all the good land is already cultivated. Most of the remainder has something wrong with it: bad climate, bad soil or both. There is still room for pioneers, but not enough to make much difference...
...some misapprehensions about China. Wrote Dean Pound: "There is by no means the general condition of demoralization, corruption and inefficiency which is portrayed in American newspapers. . . . In the clippings from the American press, which my friends send me from time to time, I can't recognize the land in which I am living. There is no censorship of the press. . . . The papers . . . which I see every day are as critical of the government as they like and are allowed a liberty in time of civil war which I do not think for a moment we in America would tolerate...
Acre for acre, the red lava soil of Hawaii is the richest sugar land in the world. Two of Hawaii's biggest sugar plantations, on the island of Maui, are Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd. and Maui Agricultural Co., Ltd. Last week, 70-year-old Frank Fowler Baldwin, ruling patriarch of Hawaii's potent Alexander & Baldwin, Ltd., combined the two companies in a $25 million merger. As a result, the new company, Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co., Ltd., with 25,454 acres of cane land and a yearly output of 135,000 tons of sugar, becomes the largest plantation...
...Blandings Builds His Dream House (Selznick; RKO Radio), like the original bestseller by FORTUNE Editor Eric Hodgins, is a sort of rich man's Egg and I: a comedy natural for all big city dwellers who have ever tried to get back to the land the easy way. It all starts off with the woes of Adman Jim Blandings (Gary Grant) & wife (Myrna Loy) as they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans...