Word: bounteous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beating in the tax courts last week. In New York, the state's transfer tax department suppressed a smile as it revealed that Howard Gould, sobersided last son of Railroad Baron Jay Gould, left an estate of $64 million when he died at 88 in 1959. Of this bounteous legacy, about $37 million will go straight to Uncle Sam and another $13 million to the state, leaving 26 legatees to scramble for the $14 million remaining. A keener student of the tax game, the late auto heir and playboy Horace Dodge, who died at 63 in 1963, took...
Sonic Barriers. Largely as a result of Wallace's advocacy, the "farm problem" of today is vastly different from the cruel paradox of the Depression, when farmers went broke amid bounteous production. Today, despite ever more plentiful crops, the efficient farmer is assured of a decent living, contributes his buying power to the economy and his output to the hungry of the world. He may be part of a "permanently subsidized peasantry," as Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, insists, but he stands tall on his land...
...FRANCISCO, July 13--Thousands of delegates, alternates, and visitors at the 28th Republican National Convention made the six-mile trip to the Cow Palace today to listen to a full bill of bounteous and turgid oratory. An obvious disinterest pervaded the opening session of the convention...