Word: tenanted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sacks of Wheat. The case had a humble beginning. Waller sharecropped a wheat and tobacco farm in Pittsylvania County in southern Virginia. His landlord was Oscar Davis, a white tenant farmer who, no matter how hard he worked and sang hymns in the Methodist church, never got out of debt. Black and white, Waller and Davis were two poor, desperate men at the bottom of the South's economic heap. When the Government curtailed Davis' tobacco allotment, Davis cut Waller's acreage and denied the poverty-stricken Negro his due: one-quarter share of the threshed wheat...
...every big city, agents for big apartment-hotels held their breath; many a wealthy tenant would give up his town apartment when the lease expired. And up & down the U.S. vacationlands, proprietors of snooty resorts wondered what they would do for customers this summer...
Animal Kingdom. In Morristown, N.J., a court awarded Frederick and Evelyn Smith $3,792 for damage done to their house. Damagers: a tenant's 200 dogs. In San Diego the Charles E. Smiths heard a scratching at their trailer door, opened it, found the cat they had left two months before in Buffalo...
...Farm Credit Administration) explains itself; FSA (Farm Security Ad ministration) aids tenant farmers, sharecroppers, migrant farm labor. Another FSA (Federal Security Administration) administers social security, public health, etc. Chief is Paul V. McNutt...
...common soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...