Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mary. When audiences and critics agreed with Rodgers & Hammerstein, Juanita switched to champagne ("I love the stuff, and then I feel so bloody rich") and began shopping for a 14-room house to replace her apartment on Manhattan's St. Nicholas Terrace. Says she: "I want to make big money because I want to be comfortable myself, as who doesn't, and because there are a lot of people I want to help...
Fear the Devil. The bumper harvest brought a big problem to all U.S. wheat farmers, and it was not the weather; it was what to do with the crop. There was no place to store it. Most of the nation's bins and elevators were still bulging with last year's wheat. The situation in Texas was typical: there was enough storage space to hold around 140 million bushels, but three-fifths of it was already filled with 1948 wheat and grain sorghums. That meant there was only room for this year's first 55 million bushels...
...Territory of Hawaii, people of Asiatic descent make up almost half the islands' 540,000 population. But in the tight little islands' economy, dominated by the sugar-factoring "Big Five," they have had little chance to get rich-until Ruddy Fah Tongg came along. Ruddy showed them...
...college in 1925, he started a bilingual Chinese-English weekly in Honolulu that eventually grew into Tongg Publishing Co.*It earned him the venture capital that made him a big operator in the huts. His brother Richard Choy Tongg is his inseparable companion in all his promotions...
...bore him several children. It was the hidden, human Goethe, warm behind the icy mask, who told his friend Johann Herder: "If you continue to be fond of me and a few friends stick to me and my girl remains faithful and my baby lives and my big stove works well-why, I have nothing left to wish...