Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other men were charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission with withholding information about a rich ore strike by the Texas Gulf Sulfur Company until they or their business associates bought stock in the company...
...would urge also that we need a somewhat stronger line on that most glittering of modern economic doctrines which is that all progress must be bought by increasing profits and allowing a larger return to the needy rich. In the last six years under the presumably stern egalitarian policies of two Democratic Presidents, corporate profits after taxes increased from $27 billion to $48 billion. Nothing comparable to this ever occurred before. It is even bad for the Republicans; what in the world will they have to offer if they ever return to the Treasury? Let me now say a word...
...demands of social justice." He renewed his call, made during his 1964 visit to Bombay, for a world fund made up of a portion of the money now spent on armaments to "relieve the most destitute of this world." Whatever the channels, he declared, "superfluous wealth of rich countries should be placed at the service of poor nations." Otherwise, he predicted, the "continued greed" of the rich nations "will certainly call down upon them the judgment of God and the wrath of the poor, with consequences no one can foretell...
Eskimo Pie. Russell Stover himself was an lowan who took up candymaking almost as a hobby. In Omaha in 1922, he teamed up with a man named Christian Nelson to concoct a chocolate-covered ice-cream bar that became famous as Eskimo Pie. Stover and Nelson were rich within six months but soon got bogged down in a series of costly patent suits. After a falling out with Nelson, Stover started anew in Denver, began producing "Mrs. Stover's Bungalow Candies" with his wife Clara. So popular were his hand-dipped chocolates that Stover opened up five retail outlets...
...steps on, and there is hardly a stereotyped opinion-or character-in the book on either side. His grandfather is pictured as first looking forward to the Nazi reign with something like enthusiasm, since he had never forgiven the Communists for robbing him "of his dream of getting rich" as "an entrepreneur." And although hatred for the Germans seethes through nearly every page, Kuznetsov also renders faithfully the few encounters with Germans who showed him or his family any kindness...