Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five days after the landings on Mindoro, U.S. fighter planes in the Philippines briskly turned their main attention to knocking out Japanese air power on the far richer target of Luzon. Joining in the fun, as usual, were the "Forty-niners," men of the Fifth Air Force's famed 49th Fighter Group, first expeditionary unit of the Army Air Forces to go overseas...
...once constituted 6.6% of their total income, has now shrunk to a piddling $58,000 (about .009%). One reason was that the corporation diverted much of its income to the Red Cross, the National War Fund and international-relations projects. Another was that U.S. colleges and universities are much richer than they used to be. In a typical recent year (1940), their income exceeded $630,000,000. Finally, the Government sources now foot almost half the wartime bill for U.S. higher education...
Canada's military authorities had just opened a drive to get recruits for overseas service. War Services Minister Leo Richer LaFlèche had said: "If we put forward the proper appeal to the French Canadians, they will respond. . . ." Perhaps Cardinal Villeneuve had made the proper appeal...
Expertly sandwiched between the pratfalls and the broad pie-throwing burlesque of suburban manners lies a richer comedy idea-the alchemy by which a phoney hero is transmuted from the base metal of conventional heroics to the pure gold of true heroism...
...Ubico grows richer, he grows more solicitous for property rights. His latest legal masterpiece (Decree #2795, April 22, 1944) "exempts landowners or their representatives from criminal responsibility for acts they commit against trespassers caught gathering game, fruit or firewood. . . ." In practice, a landowner may kill a hungry Indian caught plucking berries; he may kill a refractory laborer, no questions asked...