Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the instructor, a well-known muralist named Sibley, and his oldest daughter Freda. But it was a long time, what with strikes, accidents, job-hunting and the like, before the factories relaxed their hold to let him devote his full time to painting. Subsidized at last by a rich woman, he went to live with the Sibleys, worked as hard at painting as he had in the factories. His first exhibition was a big success...
...first thing that Ivan Petrovich remembered, the first thing in all his life, was the warm sleek side of a sow, the fat rich smell of her, and the squeaks of the little piglet he'd pushed away to make room for him, and the huge woman that tore him away from the sleek warm sow and hit him and said, 'You little sookin sin' (son-of-a-bitch), and something about piglets being money and babies a devil's own nuisance." The next thing Ivan remembered was his mother killing his father with...
...rich radium deposit is one which yields 90 to 120 milligrams (.00315 to .0042 oz.) nearly pure radium bromide salt per ton of concentrated ore (50 tons of crude ore). From ore bodies of such richness in northwestern Canada the refining plant is able to extract one gram of commercially pure radium from 550 tons of mined ore. A San Diego mining engineer and chemist named F. S. Kearney, now working in Mexico, assayed Mrs. Bishop's ore at 130 milligrams of radium per ton. This high figure, Mrs. Bishop said, was confirmed when she sent a sample...
...frozen surface of Canada's Great Bear Lake, which is cut by the Arctic Circle. He spotted a vein of curious, glossy stuff which looked something like anthracite coal, with gleams of yellow, pink and green, recognized it as pitchblende. Surveys and assays showed that the deposit was rich and copious. In 1933 a refining plant was completed at Port Hope on Lake Ontario, 3,500 miles away. The Great Bear Lake find broke the Belgian monopoly, reduced the price of radium to its present level of $25,000 per gram. Few months ago Canada celebrated production...
...escape, vowed he would thereafter confine himself to friends and history. Even the great Rousseau was mixed up in Suzanne's plot to marry him. Rousseau said he would speak to Gibbon, but was glad an accident prevented the appointment, since Gibbon would only make her "unhappy and rich in England." After her marriage to Jacques Necker, Louis XVI's famed Minister for Finance, Suzanne invited Gibbon to the house frequently, kept tabs on him the rest of his life, although the scared historian took care not to get in her clutches again. Wary of all women after...