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Show LAND GIVEN AWAY BY THIS COUNTRY Few governments in the world have been as generous as the United States in giving away real estate. It is hard to visualize the Federal Government as a land-grabber land-grabber when it has given away 132,000,000 acres to assure the construction of railroads, 181,000,-000 181,000,-000 acres to promote education and 285,000,000 acres to citizens seeking seek-ing homesteads in unsettled areas. In the five fiscal years, ending June 30, 1941, the Government gave to homesteaders more than five million acres of land. In view of the figures given above, and the generous land policy pol-icy of the Federal Government, it is hard to locate any problem in connection with the land holdings of the Federal Government. If any complaint is justified the criticism criti-cism should be directed against the giving away, rather than the acquisition, of real estate. |