Word: assets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Slums & Strikes. He was bom on Dec. 17, 1874 in Berlin, Ontario, a town which later, in the fever of World War I, changed its name to Kitchener. His first political asset was the endowment of a historic name. Grandfather William Lyon Mackenzie, a stern and pious man who fled at 25 from awful poverty in his native Scotland, was a journalist, politician and rebel. He had led an armed rebellion in 1837 against an aristocratic oligarchy which was throttling representative government in what is now Ontario. The uprising was short-lived and forced him into exile, but it earned...
...nation whose most potent military asset was its soldiers' readiness to die rather than yield had actually developed a defense, however fantastic and uncertain, against the U.S. amphibious attack...
...years, Chicago's plush-and-horsehair Palmer House has been a gradually fading symbol of baroque elegance. It has also been a prime financial asset of Chicago's elegant Potter Palmer family. Last week, the Palmer House passed from the Palmers to Hotelman Conrad Nicholson Hilton, the latest addition to his $100,000,000 hotel chain.* In payment, Honore Palmer, son of the "titan of State Street" who grubbed up the family fortune, got $20,000,000 from Hotelman Hilton. The old hotel was the biggest item in the Potter Palmer estate...
...Niels Bohr, famed Danish scientist who helped develop the bomb, gave ample proof that "the secret" was a fleeting asset. He told the world that current U.S. production of the essential element was 6.6 pounds of uranium...
...physicist has become a military asset of such value that only with the assurance of peace will society permit him to pursue scientific knowledge in his own quiet way. Our rejuvenated military forces are building giant laboratories (any one of which can use up all of our currently available and really well-trained physicists), and hope to stock them with men who can continue their scientific research and still adhere to the . . . regulations of the Civil Service Commission...