Word: esses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with old John D. it was different; he was out to develop an infant industry; caveat emptor was the bust ess standard of that time. He heard there was gold in oil when he was 22, and a year later he was in the oil business with an Englishman named M. B. Clark and a mechanical wizard named Samuel Andrews. Bargaining and borrowing was Mr. Rockefeller's prime task. Once he told a Clevelander that he wanted to invest $10,000 before he hit that same Clevelander for a loan of $5,000. So it is easy to understand...
...ess of an incautious genius, originally traced...
...Today the United States does not stand on these Americas as the leader of young nations who look to her for protection against Europe. It is doubtful if the Latin Republics of the Southern Hemisphere would willingly accept her as a protector-ess...