Word: richer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interim, prosperity has presented Miss George with a home in Washington Square, Manhattan. Miss Crews, less selective in the matter of husbands, is a laborer's wife in the shanty colony along the upper reaches of Fifth Avenue. Their husbands come to blows over a piece of property. The richer son falls in love with the poorer daughter as she sings from the stage of Tony Pastor...
...longest run that any play had had until that time-50 consecutive evenings, if memory serves. It was said at the time that "It made Gay (the author) rich and Rich (the producer) gay. If they were alive today, Mr. Gay would be even richer and Mr. Rich almost idotic with delight...
Herr Hugo Stinnes, reputed richer than Henry Ford, goaded by attacks, replied to his enemies in the columns of his newspaper Die Allgemeine Zeitung...
...produce and distribute radium from this field at cost price. Radium manufactured from carnotite deposits in Colorado costs from $85 to $110 a milligram, or approximately $50,000,000 a pound. This has been reduced in the last two years to $70 a milligram by the exploitation of much richer ore veins in the Belgian Congo. The Turkestan samples of pitchblende (the main source of radium) run almost twice as high in radium content as the Congo ores, and will make possible its distribution in America at $35 to $40 a milligram. The total amount of radium...
...work to be done will cost $3,150,000,000 more, making a total bad debt of $9,135,000,000. The only comfort for the French lies in the fact that the deficits thus incurred are represented by tangible property improvement and reconstruction, so that the country is richer by that much material gain, whether the franc depreciates further...