Word: riche
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Associative Living. The Phalanx association was started in 1843 by ten hardy families, followers of the French visionary Charles Fourier, who believed that the ills and harsh competitions of the world could be ended by "associative living." It began as a farming venture on 673 acres of rich land. As its population increased (top membership: 112 men, women & children), a gristmill and a smithy were added and the association bought a part interest in two steamboats to get their excess goods and produce to New York. They put the first packaged "name brand" cereals on the market and their stamped...
...composition of Harvard's student body also must make a difference, for crewmen are almost all drawn from the ranks of prep school alumni, to whom rowing is a respected and honorable sport, often rich with family tradition...
Even on the jumbo or Texas-sized map of Texas, the cattle and oil town of Electra (pop. 7,500) is hardly bigger than a fly's off-hind footprint. But to its mayor, a hulking, oil-rich, ex-circus roustabout named T. Leo Moore, Electra is the pearl-handled, goldplated, diamond-studded axle of the universe. When the Fort Worth and Denver City Railway threatened to have its streamlined Texas Zephyr blow through Electra without stopping, Mayor Moore began to paw dirt...
...newly rich black-marketeers fling lavish parties in speakeasy restaurants for their geisha girls. Pomaded dandies and taxi-dancers foxtrot in crowded dance-halls to the melancholy strains of ikoku no oka, "the hills of a strange land"-a hit-parade lament about Japan's 400,000 strong P.W.s still held in Soviet Siberia...
...isolated case. Summer clothes in stores all over the U.S. were going at bargain rates. In Atlanta, Rich's offered $4 cotton dresses (40% below last year). In Nashville, Harvey's department store slashed all its prices by 35% to 40%. Manhattan's Gimbel Bros, put on sale $1 million worth of summer merchandise at cut prices. In Chicago, Mandel Brothers sold $18 summer dresses for $7. Montgomery Ward & Co. also swung a sharp ax. It cut prices from 10% to 40%; washing machines were off 10% to 15%; porch furniture...