Word: bonanza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coffee has been Brazil's bonanza for over a century. There are more than 100 Brazilian planters with individual incomes exceeding $50,000. Most of them spend three lavish months a year in Paris, three decorous months at their massive Baroque mansions in Rio de Janeiro, and the remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices...
Inevitably Sāo Paulo's bonanza prosperity caused other Brazilian states to go in heavily for coffee planting, spurred by the lure of high prices created by Sāo Paulo's artificial restraint of trade. As these new plantations have come into production it has proved steadily harder to keep the price of coffee up. Pressure by the potent planters on the Brazilian Government forced the adoption of most dubious expedients by the state. These have included the buying and storing in State warehouses of Brazil's coffee surplus for a number of years, until...
They blew up the mine, wrecked its extraction mill, destroyed the nearby Bonanza mine, captured George Marshall of New York, carried him away, turned him loose in the jungle to die wretchedly of malaria...
...year-old program of attempting to force up the world price of rubber by curtailing the supply. This program, the so-called Stevenson Plan, went into effect in 1922, when crude rubber stood at 17? a pound, and bounced the price up within three years to $1.21. That meant bonanza profits for British plantations. Why then is the Stevenson Plan about to be scrapped...
...purple seals and it was not twelve inches wide. Such stuff was suspect, for the elect. Not until radio proved that the people will listen to music, even concerts and operas, until the orchestra drops dead or the vacuum tubes blow out, did phonograph-makers realize what a musical bonanza they had failed to exploit. And if long-time records would sell, then music that it takes a long time to play could be recorded and probably sold. Hence the "in-a-nut-shell" sales elocutions on "good" music with which Victor furnished its salesmen last week when it brought...