Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds] than Florida oranges...
acts of Congress?" (1802) Chief Justice John Marshall: "To undertake here [in the Supreme Court] to inquire into the degree of ... necessity, would be ... to tread on legislative ground." (1819) Andrew Jackson: "When the laws undertake ... to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society...
...local bank. Thus, if the $200 travels through 50 transactions during the 30-day period, a penurious oldster will have been provided with $200 worth of goods and services, merchants and townsmen will have done $10,000 worth of business and the Townsend Test Fund will be $200 richer. Sponsor Lamb and Chelan Townsendites cannot see how the revolving pension fund can fail to revolve. Just to be sporting, and to overcome the possibility of a fluke on their first try, they are going to choose five more oldsters to repeat the process during the five succeeding months before reporting...
...stomachs with their knees in order to be able to shut the steel doors of the cars. . . . The working population of New York has left today another part of its life's energy in the temples of Capital. Some of the people have become weaker; others have grown richer. In the subway are those who have become weaker. The color of their faces is greyish, their hands are hanging down weakly, their eyes are dim. . . . Only their jaws are moving, submissively, evenly, without joy or animation. . . . What are they trying to find in this miserable, degrading chewing? . . . When...
...plainly told a jury what his colleagues at the Exchange had said to him about his picture. They had. he said, asked him "how it felt" and "how much he made from renting it out." When the jury came in, Mr. Burton was not $75,000 but $2,500 richer. Disappointed, his attorneys turned their attention to the case of Burton v. R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.. which is to start this week with $200,000 asked...