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...their acreage livable is a constant one for U.S. Indians. The Senecas are still bitter about the 10,000 acres taken in 1964 by the Army Corps of Engineers for the Kinzua Dam. The Senecas were paid $3,000,000, but to them land is no mere matter of money???it is a spiritual as well as a sustaining resource. The Tuscaroras of New York lost 553 acres to a reservoir in the late 1950s. They were paid $850,000, only to learn that nearby Niagara University got $5,000,000 for just 200 acres...
...nice, thoughtful, helpful." He liked to talk about books and tend the garden; he played Chinese checkers with a couple of elderly neighbors, one of them a Jewish lady. Sol was no swinger, was rarely seen with girls. His brothers told police that Sol liked to hoard his money???perhaps explaining the $409 he had on him despite his being unemployed recently. He did well enough at John Muir High School to gain admission to Pasadena City College, but he dropped out. He wanted to be a jockey, but could qualify only as a "hot walker," a low-ranking track...
...when he bought Syracuse's two evening papers, the Herald and the Journal, both were losing money???$450,000 the year before. Overnight, Newhouse changed the loss to profit. To get full city coverage, Syracuse advertisers had been compelled to buy space in both evening papers, at a retail rate of 10^ a line in each. Newhouse merged the two papers, retaining their best individual features. Then he raised the Her aid-Journal's retail ad rate to 13¢ a line. Merchants responded to the bargain, and retail ad sales rose nearly $1,000,000 the first year...
...different characters and careers of Kennedy and Johnson. They are sometimes thought to represent the liberal and conservative wings of their party, but allowing for the differences between Massachusetts and Texas, their voting records are similar. There the similarity ends (apart from the fact that both of them have money???Kennedy by birth, Johnson by marriage...
...efforts on production goods, and got along with the very minimum essentials of consumer goods. Having a limited supply of food and clothing, and almost no luxuries, we sold the minimum essentials at low prices. When we have more goods than people can buy we'll increase the money???raise wages...