Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, the Air Force answer was blunt: there was no reason for a second strategic air arm when its land-based 6-365 could already deliver bomb loads to any spot in the world. Besides, the airmen pointed out, the Navy could not land its heavy bombers once they had taken off. In the Air Force view, the supercarrier was a needlessly expensive duplication which could not complete its mission without the help of Air Force landing fields...
...Puerto Rico, overcrowded (pop. 2,200,000) and long tied to a one-crop (sugar) economy, the path ahead was indeed uphill. The hardest fact of the island's life is that it has too many people and too little land. Of its 1,000,000 arable acres, 300,000 are in sugar cane, the cash crop. That leaves less than half an acre of land per person for other crops and food production, and much of this land is eroded and exhausted. Unless Puerto Rico can perform a near-miracle of lifting itself by its own economic bootstraps...
...sound understanding of U.S. intellectual and political life, and friends in New York and Washington who were later to help him in his work for Puerto Rico. In 1926 he moved back home. Muñoz had hoped that life might be cheaper and more spacious in the land of his birth, but the poverty and slackness that met his eye in San Juan shocked him. He made up his mind in a hurry: "No Puerto Rican has the right to be a literato unless he first does something about conditions in this island...
...Deal. Some of the laws behind it were already on the statute books; Tugwell and Muñoz breathed life into them. Among the important agencies that went into operation were the industrial-development and farm-development corporations, and the Puerto Rico Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board. The Land Authority tackled the job of enforcing a 40-year-old law limiting holdings of real estate by corporations to 500 acres. By the eve of 1948, the Authority had spent $25 million and reclaimed 70,000 acres, mostly from the big sugar companies, in order to establish land cooperatives and subsistence...
Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...