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...last year's-the potato harvest was down by 10%, sugar beets were down 14%, and wheat, most important of all, was off 16%. Yet the Winnipeg Tribune could say: "Even momentary comparison of our lot [with Europe's] makes us seem as rich as Croesus: it is a time both to give thanks and to share...
Died. Air Vice Marshal Sir Umaid Singh Bahadur, 43, Croesus-rich Maharaja of Jodhpur, absolute ruler of 2½ million people in the state that gave its name to a kind of riding breeches; after an appendectomy; in Mount Abu, Rajputana. Westernized at India's Mayo College (for princely sprouts), the Maharaja learned to fly, imported tile bathrooms, favored his subjects with land, judiciary and educational reforms; but he visited England as an Oriental despot with 70 polo ponies, four wives, 100 servants...
Fritz Mandl, sleek, shifty, Croesus-rich ex-Austrian arms manufacturer who has had his political troubles (he was blacklisted in 1944 by the State Department and is now rumored imprisoned in Argentina) ran into domestic trouble. He was sued for $80,000 in back alimony by his first wife, ex-Viennese Actress Hella Strauss. (Another Mandl exwife: Cinemactress Hedy Lamarr-see MILESTONES...
This is the value, guessed Harold Ickes, of all the coal, iron ore, copper, zinc, lead and other minerals; of petroleum and natural gas; of water power, farms, forests, fisheries, public and private utilities, industry, public and private buildings. Cried Honest Harold: "We are every one a Croesus...
When Kirby left the World-Telegram in 1939, there was only one New York paper where he could feel at home: the liberal, New Dealing Post. The Post is no Croesus. When his contract expired, well-heeled, always well-paid Cartoonist Kirby got a renewal offer from the Post at a very small salary-no more, he said, than the first pay check he drew back in 1911 when his friend, Franklin Pierce (Information Please) Adams got him his first cartoonist's job on the old New York Mail...