Word: richer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government has paid out $165,000 in such rewards, chicken feed beside the peak $87,600,000 that the British spent one year fighting the guerrillas. Even Hor Lung had apparently found a little bribery-rumored to be $50,000-irresistible. "He is." admitted the Prime Minister, "now richer than...
...continued brighter, gayer, more interesting than before. Each phase of its irrepressible evolution reappeared in the next: the theater had more than its share of Barnum, the movies committed more Follies than Florenz Ziegfeld, and TV is in effect bringing vaudeville back to life. Today, show business is bigger, richer, more fascinating than ever. To report the world of show business is the aim of a new section TIME launches this week...
...Joyce, a onetime airline hostess, and son Kevin, 9, Boling soon was soaking in a hot bath, relaxing under an alcohol rubdown, then slipped gratefully into bed. He was $3,140 richer for the flight ($1,000 of the money pledged to the Seventh-day Adventists) because properly proud Beech Aircraft had guaranteed $1,000 for his reaching Seattle and $10 for every mile beyond. But for Pat Boling there was a greater satisfaction. Said he: "Those were the best hours of my life. Everyone likes to see his plans come true...
...week the U.S., in a mixed-up, 20%-above-normal, Christmas-like post office rush, anticipated the increase of postal rates from 3? to 4? (lavender-colored Lincolns or gold-colored Bolivars) for first-class letters, from 2? to 3? for postcards, from 6?: to 7? for domestic airmail. Richer by $450 million revenue, Postmaster General Summerfield rosily called it "the beginning of the greatest period of postal progress in American history." Epilogue to an era, in the letters-to-the-editor column of the Chicago Daily News: "I have nothing to say, but I thought I'd just...
When Nasser got down to the Dertinent topic of what his revolution had accomplished inside his own country, he touched with unexpected frankness on his troubles in exploiting his victorious annexation of "the northern region of Syria," which was presumably a richer economy than Egypt's. Confessed Nasser: "The past five months of union have not achieved the degree of production we had hoped for. I did not acquaint myself with the budget of the Syrian region before proclaiming unity. It seems there was a deficit in Syria's budget. Syria's reserve had all been spent...