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  • Obviously, state universities are heavily subsidized, either directly from the state account, or by the results of investments of state funds, or through the original land-grants many received.

    Vouchers and Education, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Those involved in its construction could be rewarded and repaid by a system of land-grants which would see them holding the new land of the Crown for, say, ninety-nine years during which time they could exploit the new lands, selling it or letting it on long and short leaseholds as the market dictated.

    Tulip Island or Doggerland? 2007

  • Those involved in its construction could be rewarded and repaid by a system of land-grants which would see them holding the new land of the Crown for, say, ninety-nine years during which time they could exploit the new lands, selling it or letting it on long and short leaseholds as the market dictated.

    Archive 2007-12-09 2007

  • Deducing from the foregoing statement of land-grants to corporations, Mr. Holman draws the following picture of what the people may do when they are fully informed and aroused to the enormous extent to which they have been despoiled by their unfaithful servants in congress:

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Deducing from the foregoing statement of land-grants to corporations, Mr. Holman draws the following picture of what the people may do when they are fully informed and aroused to the enormous extent to which they have been despoiled by their unfaithful servants in congress:

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Deducing from the foregoing statement of land-grants to corporations, Mr. Holman draws the following picture of what the people may do when they are fully informed and aroused to the enormous extent to which they have been despoiled by their unfaithful servants in congress:

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Deducing from the foregoing statement of land-grants to corporations, Mr. Holman draws the following picture of what the people may do when they are fully informed and aroused to the enormous extent to which they have been despoiled by their unfaithful servants in congress:

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Deducing from the foregoing statement of land-grants to corporations, Mr. Holman draws the following picture of what the people may do when they are fully informed and aroused to the enormous extent to which they have been despoiled by their unfaithful servants in congress:

    Black and White T. Thomas Fortune 2007

  • Conquistadors began to demand the same kind of land-grants received by their parents.

    Slavery in Mexico 2001

  • Conquistadors began to demand the same kind of land-grants received by their parents.

    Slavery in Mexico 2001

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