Word: sell
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...voters endorsed a $550,000 bond issue which would buy a 22-acre home-development site in Deerfield and convert it into a public park. Actually, there was no need for such a park, or any desire for one-until Deerfield learned that Developer Morris Milgram planned to sell twelve of the 51 houses (at prices of $30,000 and up) to Negro families (TIME, Dec. 7). Panicking in their fear of declining land values, the Deerfielders backed the bond issue 2,635-1,208.* The Chicago law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz (senior partner: Adlai Stevenson) filed...
...INRA is supposed to provide a "vital minimum" of 66 free acres for each peasant family, though peasants who receive land from INRA may not sell it and must farm it as INRA directs. In practice, with a bow to Russia or Red China, INRA has concentrated on state-bossed cooperative farms, which so far number 485, equipped with 1,771 new INRA tractors. (Castro recently complained that INRA's major obstacle was "U.S. industrial strife," i.e., the steel strike, which has slowed delivery of farm machinery.) INRA has handed out small plot deeds to just 91 peasant farmers...
...metropolitan Toronto, which completed Canada's first subway in 1954, European immigration has pushed population from 1.100,000 to 1.600,000 in ten years. In Vancouver (pop. 518,000 in 1949, 659,000 now), backyard swimming pools are common and nothing smaller than three-bedroom houses seems to sell...