Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
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no time to waste, for as the ad went on to ask: “Hesitation, procrastination—how much have they cost you in the past?”
Well, eighty years later it’s easy to put a price on any hesitation one might have had. Land was going for relatively few bucks an acre (say $10) then vs. $20K and up now (that’s roughly 10%/yr compounded over the interval). So it would have been the shrewd speculator indeed, dude, who picked up a few parcels to pass on to his or her grandkids. But alas, so far as we can determine, no parcels
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