Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Money. In 1945, those in the top fifth of the salary brackets received almost half the national income, said BAE. Moreover, this same top fifth already held three-quarters of the savings and liquid assets. The bottom 40% had saved only $1 billion during the war. More than 50% having bank deposits decided not to touch their holdings this year except for emergency...
...goldens are nothing more than rainbows who get their Technicolor from isolation in volcanic streams which have a bottom of red granite. They thrive only at elevations above 10,000 feet. At one time, California exchanged fish with other states and golden trout were planted in Idaho and Wyoming; then California decided that the fish were too valuable to share...
China's Sorrow. Todd had spent 26 of his 65 years studying, scheming, writing about the Yellow River. He knew the river's history: it had brought rich loam soil down from the Mongolian mountains to form the fertile flat Shantung peninsula; silt deposited in the river bottom raised the surface level along half its 2,500 mile course, until its banks could not contain it. Not even Oliver Todd knew how many humans the Yellow River, China's Sorrow, had killed...
Bankers wondered if that was wise. One wondered aloud: "I guess Giannini knows what he is doing . . . but you can't get a damn cent out of real-estate loans when the bottom drops...
Memory of a Tomb. At the top-unquestionably-is Maurice Thorez. He started at the bottom. Son and grandson of a miner, he was born in 1900 at Noyelle-Godault in the Pas-de-Calais. "My earliest memory is of a mining accident, of plain white wooden coffins placed in neat rows on the floor of the shed. I remember men, women & children running in all directions, colliding, pushing, returning to where they started, and sweating gendarmes guarding the pit gates against the shrieking, weeping, hysterical crowd which knew that hundreds of its menfolk were condemned to slow death, entombed...