Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been married less than ten years, have three healthy, intelligent children, a city home furnished and paid for, a car, and have just bought a country place with 15 acres of land-fishing and swimming available-which should be paid for within five years; and we have done this on less than $5,000 a year (we could have made more but we want time to enjoy the good life...
Jewish refugees from Europe were still pouring in and settling on land formerly occupied by Arabs...
...appointed him supreme commander of an area about 13 times as big as Texas, mostly wasteland, underdeveloped and underpeopled (about 14 million-one-third Han Chinese, one-third Moslem Chinese, and the remainder Tibetans, Turkis, Mongolians, Kazaks). Ma's elevation put the Northwest on its own. His land was a poor holding in comparison with the lost coastal regions and lush river valleys, but, until conquered, it would be a thorn in the flesh of Communist China...
Through all the sound & fury, Candidate Bose remained in Switzerland, rallying his supporters with long-distance statements: "Black-marketeering, profiteering, corruption, favoritism and nepotism stalk the land. There is resort to police terrorism on the slightest pretext. The Congress' name today is mud." Congress was split by petty quarrels, weakened by a 10% rise in food prices during the past year, and harassed by a Communist gang-up with Bose...
...their $5¼ million, De Bretteville and friends got assets which they estimate at $10 million. Among them: ¶Half-interest in the Spreckels Sugar Co. with its three California beet-sugar plants (including the nation's largest), and its 14,000 acres of land, most of it in the rich Salinas Valley...