Word: lands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Government to maintain and improve the good relations." The Hoover reply was in kind. Besides orating about "cooperation" and "contacts," Mr. Hoover tried to define what he means by "goodwill" (see above) and mentioned two specific things for which Costa Rica may be admired-wide distribution of land and home ownership, and four times as many schoolteachers as soldiers...
...shores of the potato's native land* are walled by mountains which majestically echoed the salutes and counter-salutes of nations as the Maryland steamed in. Motors waited in Callao to carry the Hoovers up to Lima, perhaps the best U.S.-advertised city in South America, thanks to its non-existent Bridge of San Luis...
...caller called Casey at a half past jour, Kissed his wife at the station door, Mounted to the cabin with his orders in his hand, And took his farewell trip to the promised land...
...fathers of more babes than they would beget in cities; 2) Relief of urban unemployment, since those deported will leave behind them many an open job; 3) Creation of a large pool of deported peasant laborers who will toil to achieve Signor Mussolini's famed program of "internal land reclamation" upon which the State purposes to spend $375,000,000 during the next 14 years...
Uruguay. The smallest South American country is among the most bounteous, salubrious and progressive. Perhaps no other land is so well watered and ideally suited to sheep and cattle raising. Prosperity is focused upon a relatively few rich ranchers, and they in turn concentrate their whole wealth in Montevideo...