Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cars in Every Garage. What would the rich, full life of 1980 be like? ". . . The United States will gradually become a country of two-car families," Slichter thought. "In another generation 70 million or more cars will be on the roads . . .Air conditioning in restaurants and office buildings will create the demand for much air conditioning in homes. The family-sized swimming pool is likely to become popular and millions of these pools may be installed...
Meanwhile Vito Marcantonio had been hopping about on the fringes of the fray, on one occasion with his good friend, Henry Wallace. He cried that the assessed valuation of rich men's buildings was being reduced, that recipients of city welfare were about to be starved, that vested interests would release torrents of nameless horrors if he were not elected. He also complained that someone had thrown old cantaloupes at him from a building...
Peter's nickname, however, seemed justified beyond mere turf victories. His father was one of England's great naval heroes, the dashing admiral who fought the German fleet at Jutland in World War I. His mother, the only daughter of Chicago's fabulously rich Marshall Field I, had left him a cool $1,000,000. Peter's youth was divided between the playing fields of Eton and happy vacations in the Swiss Alps. As a young man he had his pick of Mayfair's debutantes for company, and plenty of time and money to hunt...
Local womanhood now consists of very rich girls and very poor girls. Intermediate social levels occasionally appear on the Princeton campus, causing students to complain, "I can see they're there, but damned if I know where they come from...
...micro-meteorites floating gently down, said Whipple, may be the only specimens available of "interstellar solids." Geologists should look for micro-meteorites, Whipple said, in places like the Cretaceous chalk beds. Many astronomers believe that a planet blew up fairly recently; if so, there ought to be strata rich in its micrometeorite fragments to date the explosion...