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The land was owned by the local Burgwald family, which sold it in the 1920s to the Long Beach Land Company.
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He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.
This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.
Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.
This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.
Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.
To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.
Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.
To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.
From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
Or was he now taking the role -- the gesture and the suffering -- because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid, befogged loneliness of this land.
Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.
In many others, the previous patenting of land under the public land laws, or the way in which land was available for purchase, resulted in a scattered pattern of ownership.
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The economy of American Samoa is a traditional Polynesian economy in which more than 90 % of the land is communally owned.
The return, however, was not without problems of its own: the returnees found themselves in conflict with those Jews who had remained in the country and who now owned the land, and there were further conflicts over the form of government that should be set up.
The Tang land policy – the " Equal-field system " – claimed all lands as imperially owned, and were granted evenly to people according to the size of the households.
These included denying surveyors sent by the province the ability to survey any land in the Grants, not just land owned through the Wentworth grants.
52 % of all land was owned by large landowners before the law was passed ; this declined to 16 % after the law's passage.
More than 90 % of forest land is publicly owned and about 50 % of the total forest area is allocated for harvesting.
Monzie Square ( named after the Cameron Campbells of Monzie, Perthshire, former landowners in the town ), Station Square, where the long-since demolished railway station used to be, Gordon Square ( named for the Gordons, who owned land where the town now stands in the late 18th century, during which time the town was named Gordonsburgh ), and Cameron Square — formerly known as Town Hall Square.
Arbenz proceeded to nationalize and redistribute un-utilized land owned by the United Fruit Company, which had a practical monopoly on Guatemalan fruit production and some industry.
He immediately began pushing for a programme of land reform, partly by invoking an old Sextian-Licinian law that limited the amount of land that could be owned by a single individual.
They abolished feudal obligations and divided collectively owned common land into private parcels and thus created a more efficient market-oriented rural economy.
In the territories ( not at the level of the Empire ), power became increasingly bundled: Whoever owned the land had jurisdiction, from which other powers derived.
The Honduran government and two banana companies — Chiquita Brands International and Dole Food Company — owned approximately 60 percent of Honduras's cultivable land in 1993.
The government also introduced a Recompensation Law which offered vouchers to people who had owned land before it was nationalized in 1948.
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