Word: rich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Instead, Birrell last week was still safe -though technically under custody-in Brazil, reveling in the unaccustomed role of a rich-but-heroic David pitted against the ruthless power of a Wall Street-dominated U.S.-Government Goliath. And New York Assistant District Attorney James V. Hallisey, who had gone to Rio to push Birrell back to the U.S., was back in Manhattan empty handed...
...Rich Rebels. When Castro's wild economic reforms hit Cuba's upper class, the plot grew quickly. Armando Caiñas Milanés, head of the National Cattlemen's Association, joined, as did leading businessmen and cashiered Batista army officers. The plotters made Morgan delegate to anti-Castro groups in Miami and Ciudad Trujillo...
...years after that, the generals, the bankers and Liberals gave Ecuador "chocolate prosperity," based on rich cacao plantations. Paris became the mecca of the planters, while back home the nation and the people lost ground, literally, to grabby neighbors: 26,000 sq. mi. to Brazil in 1904; 62,000 sq. mi. to Colombia in 1916; 79,000 sq. mi. to Peru in 1942, at gunpoint. By 1949, the nation had tried 15 constitutions, 44 presidents, only 10 of whom lasted out full terms...
Tired but thrilled, Bernstein wanted to spend a night in Turkey listening to the folk music he finds "deep, rich, untouched." But he had played so long himself that no cabaret was still open, and he settled for a Turkish meal of goat cheese, pilaf and kuzu firin (roast lamb). Too soon, it was time to head for the airport and a performance in Salonika, Greece. Among the concerts still ahead on the Philharmonic's world tour: 18 in Russia, five in Poland and Yugoslavia. By the time it returns in October, the Philharmonic will have seen ten weeks...
...sniffing out oil on land that no one else wanted. This week he was preparing to pile up another fortune, based this time on his nose for natural gas. His Associated Oil & Gas Co. announced that it has proved up perhaps the largest untapped gas field in gas-rich South Texas. Estimated reserves: a trillion cubic feet. But that was only Harry Mosser's opening card; he also announced a contract to sell 800 billion cu. ft. of gas to Coastal States Gas Producing Co. at 16? per thousand cu. ft. (with escalator clause), biggest such deal in years...