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„No se puede hacer nada en veinte acres...“ empezó Johnson, pero Tylor le puso su enorme mano directamente sobre la boca y dijo brevemente:

¡Cállate!

Alwyn volvió a empezar: ‚ÄúWe shall sell a few twenty-acre farms but keep one central plantation of one hundred acres for the school. Here Miss Zora will carry on her work and the school will run a model farm with your help. We want to centre here agencies to make life better. We want all sorts of industries; we want a little hospital with a resident physician and two or three nurses; we want a cooperative store for buying supplies; we want a cotton-gin and sawmill, and in the future other things. This land here, as I have said, is the richest around. We want to keep this hundred acres for the public good, and not sell it. We are going to deed it to a board of trustees, and those trustees are to be chosen from the ones who buy the small farms.‚Äù

—¿Quién va a quedarse con lo que se produce en esta tierra? —preguntó Sanders.

‚ÄúTodos nosotros. Va primero a pagar por la tierra, luego a mantener el Hogar y la Escuela, y después a proporcionar capital para las industrias.‚Äù

Johnson soltó una risita burlona. ‚Äú¿Quier' decir que se va a ganá la vía con eso?‚Äù

„Sí —respondió Alwyn—, pero voy

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