Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...latifundiarios (large landowners) got the message quickly. Some fled to Brazil, and their workers took over the unoccupied lands. Others were forcibly evicted. In one incident that has come to be called "the Great Cattle War," some workers were about to sell a landowner's cows when the owner caught them and beat them up. The army was called in, and soon the cows were under military protection in a barracks. Eventually, the military turned them over to the local agrarian reform organization. But the angry owner had decided to give the cows to another town as a gift...
...Amoco station across the railroad tracks from the peanut-warehouse office is the only public place in Plains, Ga., where you can drink beer. The suds flowed furiously last Monday night, and the good ole boys were having a great ole time: Billy Carter, 39, owner of the gas station and younger brother of the President-elect of the U.S., was throwing the party he had promised, win or lose. And, for the second time in two years, Billy had come up a loser. By a 90-to-71 margin, he was defeated for the mayoralty of Plains by Incumbent...
James Kurker, a property owner in Cambridge, said, "This is a crisis. Nobody likes it. We're [the landlords] being attacked from all sides. I guess most of you don't believe in free enterprise and democracy...
...owner Quincy House Grille...
Abroad, Van Haefton has had to learn to measure in carres in Costa Rica and manzanas in Colombia. Harder yet is researching property deeds to make sure that the land's seller is also its legal owner. But now that Van Haefton knows foreign realty, he plans to appeal to foreign buyers. He hopes eventually to open a branch office in Europe. What German industrialists, Greek shipowners and perhaps oil sheiks want, he believes, might just be a trout farm nestling in California's Lassen National Forest, a fly-in ranch in lush green Montana or a splendid...