Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Here in the South we are overpopulated but in the Northwest are great spaces where one may travel for days and hardly meet a fellow traveler. There are wide stretches of fertile land around Ninghsia which were densely populated in the days of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-221 A.D.), which are now desolate. But in various sections of this area one may find foreigners entrenched-little, independent kingdoms with their own police, schools, hospitals and wide roads of their own construction...
...tell you: it was foreign missionaries and merchants. They have broken much land, and often those in charge of such little kingdoms are only two or three foreign women...
...have just returned from this great Northwest. It is a wonderland of broad spaces and fertile fields. There melons grow to thirty or forty pounds. It is a land of opportunity. All the land to be opened to settlers is fertile land, capable of producing rice and with large trees whose girth would take three men to span...
...what a great land our ancestors have handed down to us and we who are their descendants have not made use of our inheritance. The wars of the Occident are all for the possession of just those minerals which we have in such abundance but which, for lack of communications and development, we leave buried in the ground...
West Virginia expects much from its land grant university. The state covers the twisted knot of Appalachian mountain ridges. Soft coal constitutes its great wealth. Its coal, petroleum and natural gas sales approximate a third of a billion dollars a year. Those minerals West Virginians want to conserve and at the same time get more money for each year's output. They expect their state university to tell them...