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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when they aim strictly at giving land to the landless, most Latin American countries lack the capital and skill needed to make land reform work. The new landowner rarely gets the needed seeds, credit, machinery, farm animals: Unchecked, he often sells his land back to the estate owner...
...noted that there would be some "lamentable cases" covered by the law. "If all those cases were considered, laws would be converted into telephone books." But on the face of it, Castro's law was a response to the fact that 200,000 rural Cubans are landless and often unemployed. He plans to parcel out the sugar land in free lots of at least 66 acres for each farm family. "Colonization stations," with tractors and agricultural experts, will help the new landowners, he said. He runs the reform institute personally, and to help him he picked a onetime Communist...
Concentration on breaking latifundista political power often obscures the fact that a country may have excellent virgin farmlands available. Ecuador spent its public funds not for expropriating land but for building 1,600 miles of roads to open up the hot coastal plains. A thousand persons still own 80% of the cool Andean valleys, but peasants on free, 124-acre coastal plots are enjoying a boom that raised agricultural income 43% in seven years...
...scenes by whispering, "Darling, your dog has just been run over." When Dainty June was four, Mother whipped up a vaudeville song-and-dance for her, gave a lesser role to sister Rose Louise (who later became Gypsy Rose), added a chorus of little boys, who often "had very little talent because Mother didn't expect to pay them." The act packed 'em in across Pantages' corn-fed circuit. "God is watching over our little act," Mother reassured everyone. "He won't knock vaudeville out from under...
...with such warnings; yet every week in the U.S. and Canada one or more patients die because what was meant to be a lifesaving transfusion turns out to be a death-dealing dose of incompatible blood (such as type A given to somebody with type B or O). How often does this happen...