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...conditioning costs about $1,300 v. $140 to $290 for bedroom units, the industry has convinced many that the central units last longer, reduce both allergies and housework by filtering out pollen and dust. In office buildings, the trend is toward the central "zonal" unit controlled separately by each tenant...
While the government has succeeded in easing Ireland's historically harsh system of farm leasing, nearly 1,000,000 of the country's 11 million acres of agricultural land are still covered by eleven-month leases, which discourage tenants and owners alike from improving the land (after twelve months on a farm, an Irish tenant has a legal claim to buy it). Though 45 acres of good land are the accepted minimum for a viable farm, there are still 208,000 farms (of 360,000) with less than 30 acres each. In the poor western counties...
...acre general farm once owned by Freeman's uncle. Freeman inherited a one-fifth share, which brings him about $400 a year in income. A tenant, Arnold Gills, operates the farm "on halves," and Freeman carefully refrains from offering him any advice. The farm is not enrolled in any of Freeman's production-control programs. "I can't afford it," says Gills. "I got to grow...
Also on the grounds at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee are a dozen tenant farmers and their families, who send their children to the school, attend adult classes in better farming methods. A dairyman, for example, gets a $30,000 farm unit with a house, a barn and cows, and can stay ten years in return for splitting his profits with the school. By universal sharing, the school is thus combating what President Anderson calls "too much giveaway today." Says he: "We have no miracle pills here-just opportunity...
Helped by the Law. A poor tenant farmer's son who had to quit high school to go to work in the mail room of a bank. Post by 1933 had saved $138, which, he used to organize the Pioneer American Life Insurance Co. in his home town of Haskell, Texas. The state's insurance laws in those days favored small local companies, and Post formed a mutual company, signed up almost everyone in town. The company grew fast during World War II, helped by a Post decision to insure G.I.s without disallowing benefits for death in combat...