Word: rich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sorrow of Czecho-Slovakia, and still to the surprise of France and England, Aggrandizer Hitler took the Sudetenland on Oct.1, 1938-area: some 10,800 square miles; population: some 3,500,000; resources: rich deposits of coal and iron, highly developed industries principally textiles, glassware, chemicals. According to Neville Chamberlain, the Führer said at Munich...
Although Adolf Hitler's German troops scarcely had to fire a gun for the rich prize of Bohemia and Moravia, the Carpathian mountains did not fall without a struggle. Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned. But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance. There was a pitched battle to take Chust, the capital. It took Hungary a full four...
...Aggrandizer" Hitler's empire expanded week to within about 75 miles of the rich oil fields and wheat lands of the Kingdom of Rumania. Scarcely had the Aggrandizer got to Vienna on his swing around the new empire before the Rumanian Minister in London, Viorel Teleas, reported to Foreign Secretary Lord Hali fax that Germany had served Rumania an "economic ultimatum." Its gist: trade all Rumanian oil and wheat for German manufactured goods or expect the consequences...
...more than a year Manhattan's Guaranty Trust Co. has been smoothly squelching Financier Robert Young in a spectacular battle for control of the rich Chesapeake & Ohio Ry. (TIME, April 25 et seq.). Robert Young controlled the common stock of Alleghany Corp., top holding company of the oldtime Van Sweringen railroad domain. But Guaranty was trustee for three Alleghany bond issues under an indenture which specified that whenever the collateral (including Alleghany's C. & O. holdings) behind them fell below 150% of their face value, the bank could impound it. When the collateral so fell, the bank impounded...
When we're still in our first stages of high school, the students are a great mystery. It's rumored about that the students are "awfully rich, and Hegbert's father, yes, they always have wonderful names, is the mayor of Slingtown or president of a bank," and that they must be "powerfully" brilliant to get into Harvard...