Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bishop William Thomas Manning had been dead last week Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine wou'd have been $937,500 the richer...
...come to the end of its resources. Founded by Col. George W. Miller in 1879, it comprised no.ooo acres of ranch land in Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip, was for two generations a rich cattle range, a richer source of oil until Depression hit the oil industry. But its greatest fame came from the Wild West circus organized in 1906 by the first Col. Miller's three sons, George, Joe & Zack. The troupe comprised some 1,400 cowboys, cowgirls, Indians, Cossacks, animal trainers, 600 horses, hundreds of wild animals. Cinemactor Mix and Funnyman Rogers got their start there. Col. Joe rode...
There are richer holding companies than Mitsui Gomel Kaisha but in all the world there is no other enterprise at once so vast and so diverse. Its agencies in foreign lands outnumber the embassies and consulates of the Japanese Empire. Deposits with one of its subsidiaries, Mitsui Bank, exceed the annual tax revenues of all the cities of Japan. Another subsidiary, Mitsui Trading Co., handles one-fourth of all Japan's foreign trade. Under its house flag in normal times sails a chartered merchant fleet as large as the whole mercantile marine of France...
...Tardieu was proud of having cut his Cabinet down to 13, proud of having rolled Army, Navy and Air into one Ministry of Defense.** Richer in gold than she has ever been before (see p. 17), France is now rushing to discreet completion the most powerful and most adroitly concealed chain of fortresses ever constructed since the world began. In the next nine months alone the new Ministry of Defense will spend $600,000,000, according to budget estimates published last week. Secret, France's defense program is nevertheless known to consist of a series of fortresses, largely subterranean...
...come within gunshot of Dr. Flexner's ideal of a university really makes no difference. Georgia farmers don't ask that their doctor or lawyer be a scholar. Without pretending to reach the intellectual level of a great university, Piedmont gives a sound general education, and one surely richer in human values than many more sophisticated colleges can give...