Word: dreamed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this unbelieving world that his word is better than his bonds, Mussolini has embarked upon what be hopes will be she royal road to empire. Only stringent action on the part of the few remaining rational nations of Europe can stop this Roman holiday before its author's dream has come true...
...handsome, moody lad who had such a momentous dream was Kingsley Fairbridge, 12-year-old son of a British surveyor in Rhodesia. The year: 1897. For two days he had been camping on the veldt without food when, cresting a hill, he had a feverish vision. The veldt was transformed into fertile farms, peopled by British colonists. Some day, somehow, he resolved, he would bring those farmers to Rhodesia...
...earnest to share his dream, Kingsley Fairbridge told not even his father until he was 21 and ready for Oxford. One of the first Rhodes Scholars, he went in for boxing in the belief that through athletic distinction he might gain a hearing for his plan. Although dogged all his life by malaria, he won his Blue and one night in 1909 the Oxford Colonial Club gave him his hearing, endorsed his plan...
Like many another boom project, Coral Gables was an almost lifelong dream of a native Floridian. About the Century's turn a penniless, Nonconformist preacher left Cape Cod for the sake of his wife's health, setting out for Florida with his family and chattels in a horse & wagon. Near Miami he staked out a 160-acre grapefruit grove, named it Coral Gables, prospered enough to send his son George north to college. Son George Merrick wrote verse, won a short story contest, abruptly abandoned his literary career when his father died in 1912. Returning to Florida, he became obsessed...
...what interested SEC officials the most was the sale of some $8,000,000 of city bonds, long since in default. As any money spent by the municipality directly or indirectly advanced Mr. Merrick's dream, Coral Gables Corp. often arranged for the sale of the city's bonds. For one issue the corporation paid the city 97¢ on the dollar, then resold the bonds to bankers at 92¢, pocketing the loss because the proceeds were used to complete civic improvement promised lot-owners. Another $4,500,000 issue, which the corporation purchased from the city for a little less...