Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned to Washington from Havana, richer by one convention, 21 resolutions, one recommendation and four declarations agreed on by the Havana Conference. He said: "The agreements have cleared the decks for effective action...
...mild enough. Late in 1939, World War II set off another boomlet which failed to survive the winter. By early 1940, the dominant mood of businessmen was that business was just fair and would probably not get much better. Certainly they would not get much richer...
...last week few indeed were the businessmen who expected to get much richer. But many a twice & thrice disappointed optimist was pinching himself. What he thought he saw was a pretty substantial production boom already well under...
More exacting than the Yale Review, less staid than the Virginia Quarterly, richer than Ohio's new Kenyan Review, The Southern Review has applied no standards save excellence, has been subject to no political pressure whatever (Louisiana's politicians are apparently oblivious of the magazine). In more than one instance, its support has enabled a distinguished writer to live in frugal independence...
...object of the Nazis was to master the richer, more populous and comparatively more negotiable southern part of the country before help could reach the Norse. In this they early succeeded...