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Unclosed Case. At Giles' trial, witnesses told how B. R. Sheffield, a professional promoter and former business associate of Giles, had bought Rosenow Ranch, a scraggly, 10,114-acre tract in Kinney County, Texas for $162,500, sold it to the state a year later for $353,000. Giles admitted he had raised the state appraiser's valuation of the land $5 an acre. L. V. Ruffin, a Brady real-estate dealer, testified that he had traveled in Sheffield's Cadillac to California, Mexico, Chicago and New Orleans to get signatures of eligible veterans who had moved...
...With a remarkable burst of civic energy, Chicago tackled its problem in 1952, accomplished almost overnight what many cities plan to spend decades doing. When the parking shortage in downtown Chicago began to pinch retailers, they persuaded the city to order a $50 million emergency program. Beneath a great tract of Grant Park, facing Michigan Avenue's luxury stores, the city built an underground garage with 2,359 spaces (rate: $2.40 for 24 hours). It cost $8,300,000, but business is 20% better than expected, and the garage turned a $96,291 profit for the city...
...Arizona, guest ranches once advertised desert seclusion. Now surrounded by housing developments and shopping centers, they are eying distant locations, wondering how far to retreat to avoid still another move. As the settlers push out of Los Angeles, buying up one desert tract after another, realtors bulldoze farther and farther into the desert...
...nature of every infant, said Dr. Kelley, to believe that the world revolves around him and especially his digestive tract; as a growing child, he cannot distinguish between fantasy and reality, he lacks emotional control, and, being inexperienced in the world's ways, he cannot make sound critical judgments...
...been a less dedicated man, the abolitionist preacher called John Gregg Fee might have thought he had done enough for the illiterate mountain folk he had come to serve. On a desolate tract of land donated by Cassius Clay, he had established a whole new community at the foothills of the Cumberland Mountains in Kentucky. He had dug the well, built the nonsectarian church, opened the one-room schoolhouse in 1855. But now, he wrote later in the American Missionary, "we need a college here . . . an antislavery, anti-caste, anti-rum, antitobacco, anti-sectarian, pious school under Christian influence...