Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mortgage on Fort Knox. Europe's new prosperity has shifted the whole balance of the U.S.'s terms of international exchange. Last year U.S. exports dipped by $3 billion, while Europe's shipments to the U.S. have gone on growing. Last week London newspapers reported that for the first time in the 20th century Britain is now selling more to the U.S. than it is buying. Taking all items into account (exports, military costs, economic aid), the famed dollar gap has been closed; since 1950 Europe has increased its pile of gold by $8 billion...
...years later, during World War II, Fort Worth, Texas, instituted a similar program to take care of a flood of new students. But, as soon as they had a chance, all three communities abandoned...
...Thomas B. Stanley, governor of Virginia, proposed that the entire Virginia public school system should be put on a four-quarter program much like that which had been tried with little success in Aliquippa, Ambridge, and Fort Worth. The plan, which had met with great parental disapproval, was shelved when the segregation crisis occurred, and there is little prospect that it will be revived. Despite its failure, the Virginia proposal represents one of the first serious moves by a state system toward the full year school, and is memorable for that reason alone...
...story goes, once characterized him: "Estimated worth, $500,000,000. Pays bills promptly." Yet he had been broke so often, he once quipped, that "I thought it was habit forming." Always on the go, he kept three sets of suitcases in his two-room suite at the Fort Worth Club, packed with clothes for three different climates-hot, cold and medium...
...when oil prices tumbled, made another fortune and went broke again early in the Depression, when overproduction in the East Texas fields brought posted prices down to 10? a barrel. He lived on credit, unable to pay either his office rent or his $8 monthly dues at the Fort Worth Club. In 1932, as oil prices began to rise, Sid came out of hibernation...