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61Merchant bank — Banking A series on Financial services …
62Occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem by Jordan — The West Bank and East Jerusalem were occupied by Jordan (formerly Transjordan) for a period of nearly two decades (1948 ndash;1967) starting from the 1948 Arab Israeli War. In 1950, with British approval, and despite Arab League opposition,… …
63Development Bank of the Philippines — DBP Type State owned Industry Finance and Insurance Founded Manila, Philippines (1935) Headquarters Makati …
64Fort Collins Agricultural Colony — The Fort Collins Agricultural Colony was a 19th century enterprise in Larimer County, Colorado to promote new agricultural and commercial settlement in and around the town of Fort Collins. Founded in the autumn of 1872 as an outgrowth of the… …
65Federal Land Development Authority (Malaysia) — The Federal Land Development Authority (more commonly referred to as FELDA) is a Malaysian government agency handling the resettlement of rural poor into newly developed areas. It focuses on opening smallholder farms growing cash crops. FELDA s… …
66Peasant Land Bank — The Peasant Land Bank was founded by the Russian Ministry of Finance in 1883; it gave cheap loans to the Russian peasantry for the purchase of land and provided funding for the improvement of agricultural methods …
67Soil Bank Act — A federal statute designed to assist farmers in diverting a portion of their crop land from production, thereby avoiding the accumulation of excessive agricultural commodities, and to promote soil conservation, by providing for payments to them… …
68Women's Land Army — ▪ United States federal organization U.S. federally established organization that from 1943 to 1947 recruited and trained women to work on farms left untended owing to the labour drain that arose during World War II. By the summer of… …
69china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …
70China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …
