Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the rich racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special...
Iraq is a rich prize. Once the land of the Garden of Eden and the lush valleys of the Tigris and the Euphrates, it lapsed into centuries of neglect and misrule until oil was discovered. Now the world's sixth-largest oil producer, it has allotted 70% of its revenues in a far-sighted Development Board program to double the country's standard of living in ten years. In seven years, Iraq's per-capita income has advanced from $84 to $140. But this slow progress against immense poverty, illness and illiteracy had to contend constantly with...
...stuck on. Their feet are bare and bronzed. The czarina of fashion is a waterfront couturiere named Madame Vachon who employs a whole army of peasant girls to sew and cut and iron the simple summer uniforms of the chic. Like many another Tropezien, Madame Vachon has grown very rich, for in Saint-Tropez no one is seen wearing the same shirt or trousers two days...
...they hand out smaller prizes that give everyone a chance. National Cash Register has a series of trips based on points in sales quotas. Last year 1,200 of its 3,500-man force got a free trip (with their wives), plus $25 for each point over the quota. Rich's department store in Atlanta offers monthly bonuses to all its salespeople for topping their set quotas, once or twice a year holds a King-and-Queen contest in which the leading male and female salespeople are crowned with great hoopla by Rich's President Richard H. Rich...
Previews also keeps a careful eye on depreciated slum areas that may go industrial, is gradually increasing its trade in land for industrial purposes. Tysen is negotiating with Belgian government officials about industrial development of the Inga Rapids area of the Congo River, a vast, water-rich slice of the Belgian Congo (TIME, Nov. 25) which engineers fondly describe as "the Ruhr of the 21st century." Tysen will also shop around for three kings interested in plush homes, has hunting licenses for land for a British firm that wants to build 700-room luxury hotels in Lisbon and Vienna...