Word: rich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Louisiana has been bubbling lately with gas, natural and political. Permits have been issued to big manufacturers of carbon black to erect plants in the state's rich gasfields. At such plants, millions of cubic feet of natural Louisiana gas have been burned to make shoepolish and other products. Louisianians believe this process is wasteful and, anyway, they want Louisiana gas for Louisiana, and not for "great corporate interests." Responsible for the issuance of the permits, presumably, is onetime governor Jared Y. Sanders, shrewdest of all Louisiana politicians, attorney for the shoepolish magnates. Jared Y. Sanders is now asking...
...business, putting it on a wholesale basis through the post. After a certain number of months, of course, the jig seems up, and Mr. Marcus Faithful becomes small Mr. Crump again, dismayed when his hitherto barren wife bears twins as the result of secret correspondence with Mr. Faithful. The rich travesty on modern advertising is rounded off by an amazing rise in the male birth rate and universal posthumous acclaim for Marcus Faithful, whose only private explanation is: "It must have been faith...
...Spain is a rich country from all points of view. The moment has arrived to advance toward our magnificent future-and that at lightning speed...
...idle as a painted picture?" Have Christians forgotten that they are "saved to serve?" Are the "fields ripe for the harvest?" These are some of the trenchant questions provoked by Bishop Darst's letter. Well aware that, as compared with New Testament times, "the Church today is incomparably rich in money, organization, influence, power," he pointed out that it is "failing to produce anything like Apostolic results...
...iron manufactory, Baldwin's Ltd., and was therefore biased toward the coal owners and anxious to break the strike at the miners' expense) : "I hold the shares in question. That is absolutely true, and they represent the bulk of what I have. ... I might have been a rich man today had I sold' those shares during the War and transferred the proceeds into foreign securities...