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land-poor adj (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Agriculture) owning much unprofitable land and lacking the money to maintain its fertility or improve it How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Death Valley maybe, where they wander night and day, no longer land-poor but now cash-rich, pockets stuffed with tax-exempt profits from the sale of their homes. He has much more to say of the cruel problems of the small, land-poor families and the sharecroppers than I knew from my own experience. It postulated that proto-industry developed in rural areas where at least a portion of the population was so land-poor that it would move easily into low-paying cottage production in order to survive, in other words, that it was the poorer classes who became the rural weavers. |
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