Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a true parallel between the forces and the storms of Nature and the forces and storms in the minds of men. The beneficent forces in Nature that build rich soil along river banks through growth of trees and plants are opposed by the devastating floods that wash away the banks and inundate the cities because of storms over wide areas on the plains above...
More than just roommates will be Gavin & Denney. From Chicago (by means of joint ownership of the rich Chicago, Burlington & Quincy) to the Pacific Coast their tracks run parallel (G. N. to the north). Bewhiskered, one-eyed, oathy James J. ("Jim") Hill tried to combine them in his G. N. railroad empire in 1895, failed, saw his dream of consolidation in God's country go up in smoke. Last year N. P. had a whopping $4,300,000 deficit; G. N. a piddling (for her) $2,700,000 profit. Today there is no talk of consolidating the twin grain...
...Australia. Passenger steamers were booked to capacity and passengers ruefully reported that prices were up 50%*. It seemed pretty clear that, if Mussolini had his way, Italy would stay out of the war and demand something from the loser-and that in the meantime she would work to grow rich...
...bank at Sao Paulo, Brazil; $1,000,000 in Swedish kronor, Danish kroner, Dutch guilders and Belgian francs in Banco di Sicilia's branch at Trieste and A. B. Svenska Handelsbanken's branch at Malmö, Sweden. He was said to have safe deposits in Zürich, Chicago ($450,000) and at Sumitomo Bank, Ltd. in San Francisco...
...times of war or famine, suggested Biochemist Otto Arthur Bessey of Harvard, almost any kind of seed, kept in water until it sprouts, and then eaten raw, is an excellent substitute. The vitamin has some strange relationship to metabolism, for manual laborers and athletes need large quantities of C-rich foods. Another little-known fact: the vitamin mysteriously disappears from the bodies of tuberculosis patients. Victims of diabetes, when given large amounts of vitamin C, usually require smaller doses of insulin to regulate their carbohydrate metabolism...