landowner
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“The day a forest landowner becomes wealthy is the day he quits being a forest landowner,” Hopkins said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
“When I got up there, my landowner was already in active firefighting mode,” he told The Times.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 29, 2026
In the duchy's new strategy, there will be a greater emphasis on five areas where it is a landowner - Bath, Cornwall, Dartmoor, Isles of Scilly and Kennington in south London.
From BBC ● May 18, 2026
The high-profile media tycoon was also a philanthropist and U.S. landowner; “I’ve won more than most.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 7, 2026
Sharecroppers could only keep a portion of their harvest and the rest went to the landowner.
From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson
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This, along with farmers and landowners trapping and killing wolves, pushed them to the brink of eradication.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2026
Biddy Mason was born into slavery in 1818 in Mississippi, but won her freedom in court and became one of the most prolific landowners in L.A., according to the National Park Service.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026
These landowners, largely in the Central Valley and the Central Coast, would no longer have to pay fees for the conversions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
The Blackshear, Ga., logging firm buys standing timber from landowners, deploys logging crews and hauls the wood to mills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
King George II, ignoring French claims to the Ohio River valley, had given permission for colonizing the area to the Ohio Company, a group of Virginia landowners and London merchants.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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