Word: rich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Railroad Co., which opened the first tunnels under the Hudson River in 1908 and 1909 at a cost of $72,000,000. What he made from the tunnels has been much discussed (his own estimate: an average $50,000 a year for eleven years) but he has been a rich man ever since...
Like most other expanding U. S. cities, Fort Wayne, Ind. (Pop.: 115,000) suffers from growing pains.* An up-&-coming industrial community (automotive, agricultural, electrical equipment), its increasing land values have kept some of its poor underhoused, encouraged some of its rich to hold available outlying land for development. Mightily impressed by this contradiction has been William B. Hall, Yaleman, son of President Arthur F. Hall of Lincoln National Life Insurance Co., head of Lincoln's mortgage department. A onetime flying teacher, inventor of a revolving neon sign, 33-year-old Bill Hall is not a stodgy real-estate...
...Saratoga barrier for another Sanford Memorial. This comer was Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson's Thingumabob, a two-year-old. He had run away with his two previous starts this season, had become the highest juvenile money-earner of the year ($31,810) by winning the rich Arlington Futurity. For the Sanford he was such a favorite that his odds, 1-to-4, were the shortest quoted all season at Saratoga...
...Going to Be Rich (Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy; TIME, July...
...raised WLW charges for air time to a rate surpassed by only one station (CBS's WABC), equalled by only two (NBC's WEAF and WJZ), which serve New York City, most populous U. S. metropolitan area. Competing big stations contended that 500-kw. superpower is too rich a plum to give to one station in a competitive business, asked for equal power. Smaller stations, which could not afford to build and maintain superpower transmitters even if they could secure licenses, feared that the penetration of 500-kw. voices into their territory would steal their business, wanted...