Word: gladder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tidings were all the gladder because oil is one of Brazil's sorest problems. The wells in Bahia produce only 1,500,000 barrels a year, less than 3% of Brazil's consumption. Oil imports, which must be paid for in dollars, gobble up much of the dollar exchange Brazil earns from its coffee exports. But instead of welcoming foreign oil capital, Brazil has barred it with nationalistic laws. The government oil monopoly, Petrobras, can legally hire the services of foreign experts and drilling companies, but it cannot grant concessions or sell shares to foreigners. Because of this...
Glad to be back in Spain, the returnees were gladder still to be out of Russia. They painted a chilling picture of their years as prisoners, but insisted that the lot of the Russian peasant is but little better than that of the labor-camp inmate. Said Telesforo Moreno: "Communism? Communism is cabbage soup, hard work and every man for himself...
This week Antoine Pinay was back on the rostrum to face more confidence votes, his crinkly hair neatly combed down, his left hand tugging primly at his waistcoat in a characteristic gesture. Another crisis was at hand. Antoine Pinay was gladder than ever that he had left his toothbrush at home, and not in the Premier's palace...
...bird-loving National Audubon Society began its week with happiness; one of its prospectors had discovered a large flock of flamingos in Yucatan. A few days later, the happiness turned to ecstasy when gladder news arrived from Texas. At Aransas National Wildlife Refuge near Corpus Christi, the message said, a precious egg had been hatched. From it had stepped a baby whooping crane, the first ever born in captivity. Thus, according to the most respected count, there were 38, not 37, survivors of the once numerous breed of whooping cranes...