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...look over a 15,000-acre site offered free to the U.S. Air Force for its long-planned West Point of the air. Last week Air Secretary Harold Talbott, guided by Lindbergh's survey, announced his choice for the new U.S. Air Academy: the Colorado Springs tract...
Dunster had only one first place for the spring, in tract, but had second places in softball, baseball, golf, and single shells to make up a total of 530 points...
...acre site, he has planted 10,000 pine seedlings and 10,000 strawberry plants. Says a friend: "Murchison does almost everything by ten thousands." But when the new Athenians really want to enjoy themselves, they make for the Koon Kreek Klub, an exclusive (i.e., mostly millionaires) tract of wilderness near Athens. There, Murchison, Richardson and such other Athenians as Oilman Ike La Rue and Lease Broker George Greer loaf around simple cabins in sports shirts or old clothes, play gin rummy for 1? a point, kid each other about their waistlines, and fish for bream (pronounced "brim" in Texas...
Hanging the Wash. In the late 19305, Dr. Rexford Tugwell's Resettlement Administration built a model town seven miles northeast of Washington at a cost of $14 million. Because its 900 dwelling units covered a 2OO-acre tract surrounded by 3,100 acres of Maryland countryside, the town was named Greenbelt. Greenbelt's residents, including Abraham Chasanow, set about electing a local government, operating an consumer co-op to run the town's stores, organizing a health insurance plan and a recreation center...
William Penn was openhanded in deeding land to Quakers newly arrived in the New World; in 1687 a family of early Pennsylvanians named Shallcross got an enormous tract simply by promising him a minute portion of their annual crop. But there was reason for Penn's generosity to the Shallcrosses. The land was no bargain-it was ten miles northeast of Penn's "greene Country Towne" and in the middle of an Indian-infested wilderness. Neither remoteness nor danger, however, dismayed the Shallcrosses. They built a big stone house-with iron shutters to stop flaming arrows and musket...