Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Even after it was discovered that oilfields ran out beneath the sea and oil could be recovered profitably from them, it was taken for granted that the states owned the submerged lands. So the states leased some of them to oil companies. They took out the rich oil and richer profits, and paid moderate royalties for the privilege. Even Curmudgeon Harold Ickes, who as Secretary of the Interior seldom agreed with anybody, agreed in 1933 that this seemed to be "the settled...
...paddies of Central Luzon have been the Philippines' main bread basket and bitterest bone of contention. Generations of Filipino landlords and tenant farmers have battled over how the crops should be divided. Always the result has been the same. From each carnage of broken heads emerged fewer and richer landlords, more and poorer croppers...
Easy to Wed (MGM) is polished and mounted with all the technical wizardry and great expense that M-G-M lavishes on its most precious jewels. The fact that this film is basically a blob of paste will not keep it from making its rich manufacturers considerably richer. The unbeatable ingredients: lively music, Technicolor, fine feathers, romance, colossal production numbers, slapstick, four big, sure-fire stars...
...when he was past 80, Giovanni Bellini cleaned his brushes and closed his eyes for the last time. He himself was leaving Venice richer than he had found it; and two of his students gave the old man cause for pride. They were Giorgione and Titian...
...other pile materials. No uranium had been mined as yet, but fairly large deposits had been found in central Sweden. They were low grade, containing less than half a pound of uranium per ton of ore. Swedish uranium would be expensive, but cost might be no barrier if richer deposits in luckier countries were kept away from the open market...