Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Standard Oil Co. (N. J.) announced the setting up of the Esso Education Foundation to help the nation's private colleges and universities with an annual bonanza of unrestricted gifts. Amount pledged for 1955 alone...
...NEXT BIG BONANZA for the Gulf Coast will be offshore sulphur. After spending $2,000,000 on exploration and evaluation, Humble Oil Company has brought in the first big sulphur deposit under the Gulf of Mexico, six miles off the Louisiana coast, estimates that the deposit holds between 30 million and 40 million tons of sulphur, may be the world's third or fourth biggest find...
Furthermore, it is doing its best to beef up 13 small feeder airlines (Mohawk, Allegheny, Bonanza, etc.), put them in position to get off their $25 million annual subsidy by handing out new routes-some of them in competition with big airlines-and permanent certificates as scheduled carriers. The airlines view the new routes as mixed blessings. The airlines liked getting new routes that gave them a crack at someone else's passengers, but almost all have protested new routes that increased their own competition...
...offered a timid program in some important areas, but it was mostly copied from the Democrats. The only new program it has put forward was for the construction of highways, and it botched that one by proposing to finance it with a bonanza to the Wall Street financiers-a bond issue. In other areas this Republican Administration has actually moved backward. It is dominated and controlled by Big Business-which it allows to plunder our natural resources...
...Reno's divorce mill. Then she sadly observed that she would go straight back to Playboy Manville if only he would forget this silly business of her signing away all her inheritance rights as his wife. Unbound by such a nasty waiver, she would be sure of a bonanza when he died-enough shekels to bring fulfillment of her wildest dream, so poignantly expressed by Anita when she was billing herself in burlesque as "The Last of the Red-Hot Manvilles." "When Tommy passes on," she said, "I'll be there at the funeral with a long black...