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...The Bentley has yielded more than $500mn in sales — or about 40 per cent of the inventory — in less than a year and before a single shovel has scraped the earth....
...I wanted to be involved in ag, but the price of land was outrageous, and I realised there's no chance that I could ever farm traditionally, simply because I couldn't afford to buy the land or lease the land...
...In another, the World Wide Fund for Nature joined it in a $6mn initiative two years ago to restore 1mn acres of grazing land in the Great Plains....
...Oh, for a time machine. In 2000, the average price of an acre of prime arable land in the UK was around £3,000. By 2015 that had leapt to over £9,000....
...Today the population peaks at about 5,000 and fewer than 1,000 people are thought to live in Idlewild year-round. But Stubbs says that to reduce its meaning to numbers would be a disservice....
...Tell us here — a selection of some of the best reader recommendations will soon be published For more pieces like this, visit ft.com/globetrotter or read our guide to Miami Follow FT Globetrotter on Instagram...
...“In terms of evacuation centres, they have to be run differently because they can’t have 1,000 people in the same place.”...
...There will be no respite for Good’s of Evanston, a custom framing shop in a suburb of Chicago that is closing permanently next month after more than a century in business....
...It is situated on 1.4 acres of land, including gardens, wood decking, limestone patios, two outdoor bars, mountain views and multiple dining areas....
...In this year’s first quarter, more than 18 months from the election, he raised $150,000 in small donations. He has a campaign chair in each of the state’s 55 counties....
...The vast majority fled poverty or violence in Mexico or other parts of Central America and two-thirds of them have been in the US for 10 years or more, according to the Pew Research Center....
...But personal income in the state grew by just 1.5 per cent between 2016 and 2017 — less than half the 3.1 per cent growth rate experienced across the US, and the seventh lowest of the 50 states....
...In Pennsylvania, gas gathering lines alone are on track to cover 1 per cent of the land area by 2030, according to a pipeline task force....
...Interrupted only by the cicadas, Jim Chilton, a fifth-generation rancher, and his wife Sue explain that Mexican drug mules, who routinely traverse their 50,000 acres of land, cover the soles of the moccasins...
...At the southern end of the hills, an eight-bedroom Grade II-listed house with a pool and three acres of land in Ledbury is on the market for £1.1m with Grant & Co....
...But, at 1,000 pages, this is a formidably detailed, closely argued study of the making of one of the giants of 20th-century foreign policy....
...Or the last dodo. But the last passenger pigeon’s death can be dated more or less exactly: the afternoon of September 1 1914. There was something else extraordinary about this extinction....
...What gives a piece of land its value? Why is a 500 sq ft spot in London worth more than 500 acres of land in Angus? The answer is obviously its location....
...“You could almost make the case that we’re worse off than we were at this time last year,” says John Robinson, who grows corn and soyabeans on 1,000 acres in Piatt county, Illinois, one of the most productive...
...Nobody had shown any interest in the land in decades, he reasoned. Six months later, the goldrush was at its height and prices leapt to $25,000 or even $30,000 an acre....
...In 1950, the city had 106,000 inhabitants, making it the 99th most populated in the US. It now has 1.6 million, and has just moved ahead of Philadelphia into fifth place....
...her total screen time as Moneypenny in 14 films was less than two hours, and she spoke fewer than 200 words. I am somewhat more prolific, writing something like 70,000 words a year for publication....
...Donleavy lives at Levington Park, a house on 177 acres of land on the outskirts of the city of Mullingar in County Westmeath in Ireland. Mighty oaks and horse-chestnuts stood alongside the drive....
...Today, less than 1 per cent of the rail traffic that clanks through town day and night actually stops in Springfield. We passed four, five, six-bedroom houses on sale for $150,000-odd....
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