Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate finally agreed with the House that minimum pay for servicemen should be $50 a month. The soldiers' pay bill went to the President. The law made the extra pay retroactive to June 1. With $50 a month, food & shelter, an enlisted man will be richer than many an average pre-war citizen...
...scouts and women's services were sent on their finger-pricking harvest when British chemists found that rose hips are an absurdly rich source of vitamin C-400% richer than oranges (now rare as mangoes in Britain) and 300% richer than black currants (C-richest cultivated fruit). All this was reported in copies of Monthly Science News recently arrived in the U.S. from England...
...wartime U.S. the poor were growing richer, the rich poorer. War-factory payrolls had brought back World War I's silk-shirt days, except that most buyers now didn't want silk shirts. High taxes and living costs had put many a rich man on half rations. Badly off were white-collar workers with fixed salaries: schoolteachers, civil-service employes, office workers whom the boom had passed...
...lower reaches of the southwest Pacific, where he had been successful beyond belief, the Jap still had a lot of unfinished business on his books. Until Douglas MacArthur and his Australian and Dutch allies were richer in the specie of war, they would have to be content with joggling the Jap's elbow and spilling ink over the accounts on the most profitable page of his ledger...
Texas researchers last year found that royal jelly, the substance secreted and fed to the queen bees by the workers, is two and a half to six times richer in pantothenic acid-a vitamin of the B complex-than yeast or liver. Hambleton believes that pollen will prove to have a similar content, may soon become a major source of vitamin extracts...