Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Firing Squad's Guest. All three hotels go back to the days when princes and the very rich turned their large suites into homes away from home. Mata Hari, who received her suitors, and betrayed them, at the Athenee, may have been its only guest to face the firing squad. Edsel Ford, John D. Rockefeller II, and Charles Evans Hughes were among its loyal clientele; even today, the Fords and Rockefellers wouldn't dream of staying anywhere else. Greek shipping magnates and the new movie rich wander across its baroque lobbies and take in the view...
...replace Dowling, now 72 and company chairman, as president. Scharffenberger already knew the role: he was hired away from a seven-year career at Litton, where he had worked up to senior vice president, handled the company's big defense business. Intrigued by the possibilities of an "asset-rich, earnings-poor company," Scharffenberger moved East and, with a few other West Coast recruits, laid plans for diversification...
Beating the Dogsleds. Both lines had colorful histories. In 1924, with his pi lot license No. 39 signed by Federation Aeronautique Internationale Official Orville Wright, Noel Wien brought his Misso Standard biplane to Alaska and began servicing the gold-rich territory...
...south is dairy country--the most productive in the world. Wisconsin supplies one-seventh of America's milk, more than any other state. It also leads in the production of cheese and milk cow and heifer herds. The rich dark prairie land of the southwest corner--the "driftless area" missed by the glaciers--yields wheat, corn and hogs...
HAVING vindicated himself by making a statement of his own artistic humility, he attacks. He accuses the entire world of believing in its own artifices and of vesting them with pompous officialdom. Steinberg contrasts the substantiality of a painted chunk of rich brown earth and a simple tree, with the frenzied intricacy of man's nervous world, by juxtaposing the two scenes on cliffs separated by a narrow but precipitous chasm...