Word: bonanzas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic Party's glossy, 178-page paean to the 89th Congress entitled Toward an Age of Greatness, his own reaction was that the Republic was headed toward an age of "political blackmail." Rising on the Senate floor to protest the Democrats' $1,000,000 bonanza, Williams - nicknamed "Whispering Willie" because of his barely audible speaking voice - protested...
...race issue is the catch, the reason Republicans look on their Southern bonanza as though it were an unexpected inheritance from an estranged uncle whose dealings were faintly malodorous. Republicans have long been able to laugh at the national Democratic leadership as it squirmed in its uneasy relations with the Solid South and its solid segregationists. Now the Democrats may be about to have the last laugh...
Philatelists threw up their magnifying glasses for joy. At last they had reason to believe that if years of searching for a valuable imperfection should finally pay off, their bonanza would not be wiped out by a U.S. Government printing press...
...effort to construct from the wreckage a spit-and-bailing-wire one-engine plane to escape in, and reaches a peak of excitement when this kite struggles to take off with five men sprawled on its wings. Measured against the ordinary run of adventure epics, Phoenix is a bonanza...
...byproduct, Hammer's distilleries made a mash that Hammer sold to cattle-feed manufacturers. This got Hammer interested in cattle, and he stocked his Red Bank, N.J., farm with prize Angus, including a giant champion bull named Prince Eric. "The cattle business turned out to be a bonanza," says Hammer. "In the three years remaining of his life, Prince Eric sired 2,000 calves. That one bull earned...