Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor of Land Economics...
...from a cluster of thatched huts, huddled beside a dirt road, into a glistening modern village. To feed it, Estime had cut roads through the fertile mountains around Belladère, organized collective farms, and told the peasants that the government would provide five carreaux (16 acres) of land, with tools and seed, for each family who would work the land...
...first, the roads were good. Domingo purred along at a comfortable 70 m.p.h. Before reaching Caracas - about 6,000 miles away - the field had to grind up the mighty Andes, race across Bolivia's lofty Altiplano (plateau), span desert land, plunge through an equatorial jungle. For the next 18 days, nobody heard much about the fat undertaker...
...cubbyhole office in Manhattan last week came news of the biggest deal in theatrical real estate since the purchase of land for the Radio City Music Hall. The deal: Shubert Brothers had bought the plot between Manhattan's 44th and 45th Streets-just west of Times Square-on which sit four of the busiest Broadway theaters (the Shubert, Broadhurst, Booth and Plymouth...
...Talk about 'building bridges of understanding'! The Iron Curtain cuts off Russia and central Europe, but it has not yet been demonstrated that there is an Oriental Iron Curtain. Perhaps China is the one place on the globe where an imaginative church, with great experience of the land, could be a leaven able to penetrate the brittle hardtack of Communism...