Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the Chancellor, whose single pronouncement could make millions of Britons richer or poorer, was Peter Thorneycroft, 47, a smooth, somewhat over-groomed son of a Tory ironmaster. On his first budget outing, Thorneycroft kept to the traditions by droning a prosaic prognosis of the nation's economic health until 4:30, the hour the Stock Exchange closed. Then, safe at last to let his secrets out, the youthful-looking Chancellor raised his voice and announced bold changes in the country's tax setup...
Three Years to Grow. Such welfare-state heresy started a sharp fisc fight. "The richer a man is the more he gets under this budget,'' cried Labor's Harold Wilson. "One of its principal virtues," answered the Tory Telegraph...
...bigger than Tunisia, potentially much richer than Algeria. Morocco (pop. 9,000,000) is the most variegated of the three countries that once constituted French North Africa. In Morocco's north there are sweeping coastal plains and fertile valleys; in the south, the snow-capped Atlas Mountains soar 14,000 ft. above arid desert. Its cities range from modern Casablanca (pop. 700,000) with its bustling port and gleaming white apartment buildings, to the walled Arab city of Fez (pop. 180,000) with its ancient university buildings and its twisting casbah streets too narrow for automobiles, to the sprawling...
...School Scholarship Plan will partially alleviate this situation by providing better financial computation of applicants' family financial situations. The richer schools will still continue to award more than the colleges because: their students often cannot obtain summer jobs, as much term-time work, or take loans...
HUGE MINERAL DEPOSITS have been uncovered in U.S.S.R. and West Germany. Russia claims discovery of "tens of billions of tons of iron ore" near Western Siberia's River Ob, if true, a richer field than world's biggest known iron deposits near Lake Superior. In Germany, Krupp has found major coal seam, will soon start country's first big coal-mining project since 1939, aims to mine 2,000,000 tons a year eventually...