Word: multimillion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry is still expanding. Union Carbide & Carbon Corp. (which owns Bakelite, the biggest plastics maker) is stepping up production 50%. Dow Chemical Co. is spending $17 million on new plants. Du Pont has completed a new multimillion-dollar ultramodern plastics factory near Parkersburg, W. Va. Production, which was only 150 million pounds in 1936, this year will hit an estimated 1.6 billion pounds...
...Evelyn ("Evie") Robert, flamboyant Times-Herald columnist (Eve's Rib), Washington business properties, her black pearl earrings, a sable scarf; to the Red Cross, her Washington home at 15 Dupont Circle; to various charities "aiding needy children, especially homeless and orphan children," the residue of her multimillion-dollar estate; to her granddaughter, Ellen Pearson Arnold, daughter of Columnist Drew Pearson (who had long been trading blows in print with his ex-mother-in-law), nothing, "inasmuch as I have made a substantial gift to her during my lifetime...
...multimillion dollar border racket between the U.S. and Mexico...
...months since the government slapped an embargo on all but the most essential imports-in a desperate attempt to conserve Mexico's dwindling dollar credits-smuggling has become an organized, multimillion-dollar racket. And the 4,570 gleaming new automobiles that have clandestinely crossed the border are only a part of the story...
...Janeiro, Charles ("Get Rich Quick") Ponzi, 70, multimillion-dollar swindler of 28 years ago (who has been tutoring languages for a living), lay half-paralyzed in a hospital charity ward. Of the U.S. he said: "I hated to leave. I loved that country...