Word: richer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hampshire last week came the big payoff on the first major U.S. lottery since the crime-ruled Louisiana lottery brought the Federal Government down on it in the 1890s. As a result, New Hampshire's public school system was about $2,500,000 richer, the U.S. Treasury was looking forward to $570,000 in taxes, 1,992 tickets were paying off a total...
...James J. Saxon has been eagerly chartering new national banks. He hopes that they will introduce fresh methods, hone competition to the consumer's benefit, and revitalize a business that has been steadily losing ground to the savings and loan associations and the credit unions. Compared with the richer, older banks, many of the lean and aggressive newcomers stay open longer hours, charge less for loans and checking accounts, and adopt more aggressive ways of attracting money...
...purpose. At a party fund-raising dinner in San Francisco, Lyndon cried: "Let us resolve here tonight that in California and in the nation the Democratic Party will be the party that worked for the people, the party that journeyed with the people across the New Frontiers toward a richer and better life for all human beings...
More important was the fact that the underdeveloped nations moved toward creating a new alliance-along economic, not ideological lines. Though they bickered among themselves, they held fairly firm against the richer lands, both free and Communist. Said U.S. Delegate Richard N. Gardiner: "This is the first major international conference in which the East-West confrontation has been submerged by the North-South divisions...
...nicker. But when the limey is sprung by the Scarperer's guileful crew, he finds himself the victim of a Gaelic doublecross. The Scarperer has arranged to have him drowned and his body washed up on the coast of France. The implausible explanation: he closely resembles a richer client of the Scarperer -a French desperado who has commissioned this elaborate plan to get himself off the Suretes most-wanted list...