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Laboring in the wilderness on a tract of land eight by 27 miles in dimensions, the doughty Mennonites have already constructed 14 adobe villages. They enjoy local autonomy and cannot be called upon to take up arms. Among themselves they speak German, are rapidly forgetting the English they learned in Canada, and are slowly picking up a little Spanish. At present the Mennonite Colony is almost the only pure Democracy in America...
Chickasha, Okla., knew W. H. Draper as an eccentric homesteader with a mule called Jack. W. H. Draper was graduated from Harvard in 1896, got a job with the Calumet & Hecla Copper Co. Last week he died and willed everything he had- $2,000 and a 27-acre tract-to his good friend, Mule Jack...
...spots were found: 1) an 18-mile stretch of the Rapidan River in Shenandoah National Park, 100 miles west by south of Washington, upon which a presidential fishing lease was arranged; 2) a tract of 1,500 acres known as Catoctin Manor, 50 miles north of Washington, watered by Hunting Creek. This tract (but not the Manor House) was purchased in the name of Lawrence Richey. A rustic cabin will be built to receive President Hoover and his intimates...
Mount Weather, as the $500,000 abandoned station is called, sits in an 87-acre tract, six miles up a rocky road from Bluemont, Va. Washington, east by southeast, lies 55 miles away over fair dirt roads- an easy journey for the Presidential motor of a Friday afternoon...
While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...