Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents today are about evenly divided on the money value of a college education. So FORTUNE reported last week after sampling public opinion on whether a high-school graduate with four years of working experience or a man just out of college has a better chance to earn a living. One-third voted for high-school graduates, one-third for college men. The rest failed to vote an outright...
Publisher Hearst took it over from its printer and paper company in 1934, in a deal which presumably permitted him to ignore its back debts unless it made money. In 1937 he got Butterick Co.'s 68-year-old Delineator the same way, rolled the two magazines into one. But admen last year bought only slightly more than two-thirds as much Pictorial lineage...
...playing Actress Helen Winthrope Weyant, 37, "a very old friend," went the other third, and $300,000 in cash. To make sure that the Yankees would be maintained in the style to which they were accustomed, Colonel Ruppert stipulated that the estate should lend the Yankees all the money they need...
Last November Representative Martin Dies's Congressional Committee on Un-Americanism threatened to summon Louise Hovick (strip-name: Gypsy Rose Lee) to testify about a Hollywood party to raise money for Spanish Loyalists. Interviewed in Manhattan last week, Miss Hovick suggested that she and Representative Dies form a vaudeville team. Said she: "With my act and his publicity we could bring back vaudeville...
Most present oil refining is done by thermal cracking-breaking crude oil's heavy molecules into lighter components by great pressure and heat. This process yields only 44% gasoline (the money-making product), leaves refiners with a great bulk of fuel oil and other by-products to dispose of. Phillips Petroleum Co. has lately found a way to convert some of these by-products into gasoline-through polymerization, which compresses wasted gaseous fractions of crude oil into the heavier molecules of gasoline...