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The speculators, organized into the Los Angeles Suburban Home Association, including Harry Chandler and Harrison Gray Otis of the Los Angeles Times, Moses Sherman, a streetcar line owner, and Hobart Johnstone Whitley, a real estate promoter with ties as far back as the " Land Run of 1889 " ( the Great Oklahoma Land Rush ), bought Mr. Van Nuys out and prepared to " sell " the San Fernando Valley.
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When Mower County was organized, Clayton was one of the townships which did not have enough settlers to be organized and thus much of the township was sold to speculators.
A rival group of land speculators from Virginia, the Loyal Company of Virginia, was organized about the same time, and included influential Virginians such as Thomas Walker and Peter Jefferson ( father of Thomas Jefferson ).
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Looming large were proposals by real estate speculators and politicians to expand the Financial District's influence into the area, and moving the Chinese community to the southern part of the city.
A scandal with the program arose in the 1990s in which at least 700 houses were sold for profit by real estate speculators taking the loans ; at least 19 were arrested, and the situation devastated the housing market in Brooklyn and Harlem and resulted in $ 70 million in HUD loans going into default.
The San Fernando Valley was where the water was headed first, and speculators were out to buy the Van Nuys Ranch and subdivide it into 3 cities, Van Nuys, Marian ( now Reseda ), and Owensmouth ( now Canoga Park ) and start land sales just as the aqueduct was finished.
" Hampton's " land speculators, George Camden and Franklin Vandruff, sold land along the Rock River, along a north-west flowing creek, which was re-routed north into the Rock's main channel.
The first European landowners in what was to become Montgomery Township, such as Johannas Van Home and Peter Sonmans, were speculators: that is, they themselves did not live on the land, but sold large parts of what they owned to companies that subdivided it into farm-sized plots for those who did intend to settle.
Developers and real estate speculators tapped into nearby lakes, the Spokane River and the aquifer lying under the valley in an effort to turn the dry land into saleable agricultural land.
The town sprang up nearly overnight in 1912, after wildcatter Tom Slick struck oil on the farm of Frank Wheeler, causing a rush of speculators, oilfield workers, and merchants into the area.
Stars representing companies and creatures representing speculators are projected into a domed ceiling in a dark room, creating an artificial night sky which visualises the dynamics of the world stock markets.
Moreover, this differential in values was exploited by speculators, who purchased unbacked currency at a severe discount with gold-backed notes and then pressured Congress into redemption of the same at a 1-to-1 rate — thereby netting the speculator a tidy profit.
Henry Clay Frick led a group of speculators including Benjamin Ruff to purchase the abandoned reservoir, modify it, and convert it into a private resort lake for the wealthy of Pittsburgh, many of whom were closely associated with Carnegie Steel.
When word got out to San Francisco about gold in British territory, Victoria was transformed overnight into a tent city as prospectors, speculators, land agents, and outfitters flooded in from around the world, mostly via San Francisco.
Throughout the 1980s, the baseball card market boomed, with new collectors getting into the hobby as well as speculators hoarding cards in hopes of selling them off later for a tidy profit.
In the middle of the 18th century, merchants and land speculators in the British Empire were looking to expand beyond the Appalachian Mountains into the interior of North America.
During the pre-World War One period, a number of speculators — including McSpadden and Odlum ( both of whom have nearby streets named for them ) -- attempted to turn the Grandview neighbourhood, centered on the Drive, into a real estate area comparable to the West End and the newly opened Shaughnessy Heights.
After the 1768 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, settlers and land speculators moved into the lands south of the Ohio River in present-day Kentucky.
They were soon besieged by foreign speculators wanting to bring colonists into the state.
Land speculators flooded into Texas.
At that point, speculators would move a black family into a house on a block that otherwise had white residents.
This group gradually moved into more extensive action in response to the perceived abuses towards smaller operators engaged in by land speculators and massive cattle operations.
Most speculators say that this story was made up to keep children from wandering into the gulch by themselves.
After the Civil War, many of the old estates in Washington County were bought up by real estate speculators and then developed into suburbs for the growing capital city.
The Act prevented the subdivision of land by speculators and developers into lots less than 16 perches ().
During the Great Depression large parts of Doornfontein were bought up by property speculators and turned into slum housing or " yards ".
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The Pacific Branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers served as an attraction for both tourists and local real estate speculators.
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Kingston was prominent in forming the South Australian Mining Association to keep the mineral wealth of the colony from overseas speculators.
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" On July 26, 1793, the death penalty was instituted for hoarders of grain and other ' blood-suckers ', including currency speculators ", writes Dr. Miguel Faria, who dubbed this phase the " Economic Terror " of the French Revolution: " The armées révolutionnaires were empowered to search around the towns and countryside, ransacking houses, barns and warehouses, looking for stored grain.
Having known all of the economic problems confronting the Kingdom and that Thailand had used the multiple currency basket peg exchange rate, the foreign speculators ( including the Hedge Funds ) were certain that the Thai Government would soon have to devalue the Baht.
Its foundation was the result of an invasion of wealthy squatters, land speculators and their indentured servants ( including ex-convicts ) who arrived from 1835, in a race with one another to seize an ' empty ' country.
Another service provided by speculators to a market is that by risking their own capital in the hope of profit, they add liquidity to the market and make it easier or even possible for others to offset risk, including those who may be classified as hedgers and arbitrageurs.
A number of land speculators, including Blount associate David Allison, went bankrupt.
Three land speculators, including Major W. F. Tucker, arrived in Zuni in late 1882 to claim the parcel for a cattle ranching operation.
The United Kingdom entered the ERM in October 1990, but was forced to exit the programme within two years after the pound sterling came under major pressure from currency speculators, including George Soros.
Croghan led a group of speculators, including Benjamin Franklin and his son William Franklin in land schemes in the Ohio Country, the Illinois Country and New York.
In the early years of this century, a real estate boom took place, with speculators – including the British poet Rudyard Kipling – eager to turn a quick dollar.
leading risk venture speculators, including such companies as the First National City Bank of New York and the Bank of America in California.
Bloomingdale, located just east of LeDroit Park ( one of the Nations ’ s earliest suburban developments when it was opened in 1877, changed when developers and land speculators began to chart the industrial and orchard lands for proposed development, including the area between the village of Eckington and LeDroit Park.
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In the year 1796, one of the early land speculators, John Gray Blount, paid for 326, 640 acres ( 1322 km² ) of land, a portion of which later became Yancey County, N. C.
: Gray wasn't really a conservative in the 1920s: he was more of a general populist, hostile to loan sharks and speculators while celebrating hard working ordinary people whether they're successful (" Daddy " Warbucks ) or not ( the poor struggling farmers, the Silos ).
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In a speech in Lincoln on 18 February 1974, reported in The Times the following day, Healey went further, promising he would " squeeze property speculators until the pips squeak " and said Lord Carrington, the Conservative Secretary of State for Energy, had made £ 10m profit from selling agricultural land at prices 30 to 60 times as high as it would command as farming land.
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