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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries

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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73145)	4/3/2010 12:36:53 PM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (2) of 74559

Are all the land and resources in New Zealand controlled by the national government? If so, I bet Helen and her coven liked that! The USA was settled from east to west. Most of the land in the east was arable so it was parceled out to farmers and settlers. When the tide of settlement reached the arid mountainous west, the federal government retained large land areas but also gave large chunks to the states and railroads. The initial goal of the Alaska purchase was to benefit the fishing interests. Folks weren't yet thinking much about oil in the 1860s. When Alaska became a state in 1959, vast tracts of land were promised to the state to provide an economic base. Without this Alaska could not afford to be a state, so we'd still have to be a federal territory.

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