Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elizalde family was probably the richest in Manila. In terms of the potential wealth of its strategic investments, it was far richer than that would suggest. Last week there was no news of the Elizaldes' inter-island shipping fleet, gin and rum distilleries, three sugar mills, lumber company, insurance companies, paint and floor-wax factory, huge rope factory, cattle ranch, iron mines, gold mines...
Dutch Philanthropy. The Dutch deserved even richer praise than this, but praiseworthily, they wanted no praise...
...spinster named Katherine S. Dreier who has painted, collected and talked about modern art for almost 30 years. One of modern art's U.S. pioneer converts, massive, hemp-haired Katherine Dreier stored away abstractions like a Connecticut squirrel hoarding nuts for a hard winter. Other later and richer art squirrels sometimes, got bigger and tastier nuts than Katherine. But her hoard contained more different kinds than any body else's in the U.S. Unable to house it properly on her farm, even though she built an extra wing for it, Collector Dreier toyed with the idea of giving...
Assistant to the publisher: Frank W. Taylor, big, 54-year-old ex-managing editor of the St. Louis Star-Times. Ranking high among top-flight U.S. editors, Frank Taylor brings to Marshall Field's paper his invaluable 27-year experience in fighting a tough, richer rival. (When he quit the Star-Times four months ago, the powerful St. Louis Post-Dispatch respectfully acknowledged him "Enemy...
...this discovery, if it should prove to be the rule for economically healthy communities, is that men must give up dreaming of an equal distribution of wealth-for to raise the general level of a community's wealth, the richest men would have to be made still richer...