Word: riches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park (which has the world's largest one-unit parking space -14,000 cars); Orchard Beach on Pelham Bay (where 100,000 bathers can cavort on 6,600,000 cu. yd. of ocean sand of which 2,500,000 was hauled from Rockaway); Bethpage Park (where the near-rich can play polo and all can play golf on four 18-hole courses for $1 and $2 greens fees); seven other public golf courses; 161 City tennis courts; 250 City playgrounds; 233 miles of motor parkways. Due to his efforts, Greater New York, long backward, has probably the biggest, most...
Thirsting for travel, David Fairchild obtained a research post at Naples supported by the Smithsonian Institution. On board ship he met a rich, mundivagant Chicagoan named Barbour Lathrop, who became a friend and patron, financed a trip for Fairchild to Java. This was the beginning of travels which took him, eventually as head of the Department of Agriculture's Division of Foreign Plant Exploration and Introduction, to scores & scores of countries from Finland to Zanzibar. He studied cotton growing in Egypt, bamboo culture in Japan, water chestnuts in China, hops in Bohemia, nuts in England. He brought avocados from...
Once when Fairchild was plant-hunting in the tropics, he was laid low by an infection, almost died. Two of his associates, who realized that he might have taken to his grave the rich story of his experiences, took him back to the U. S., plumped him down on a quiet New Jersey farm, furnished him with a stenographer...
...Coliseum, at Nebraska's 44th Coronation Ball of Ak-Sar-Ben*- the social high jinks of the State's big annual autumn festival-the 44th King of Ak-Sar-Ben (William Otto Swanson, ruddy-faced Omaha clothier), clothed in proud embarrassment and silks, was crowned, throned, cheered. Rich, rotund, charitable King Swanson had twice previously (1937, 1938) been decorated by the King of Sweden. Honoring France's liveliest cinemactor with the Legion of Honor, the French Government made him Chevalier Maurice Chevalier...
...brilliant defense, resounding with rich invective against Marlborough's Tory enemies: Harley, St. John, Queen Anne, Dean Swift. But it adds up to something less than Author Churchill intended. What he proves, chiefly, is that Marlborough was merely no worse than his enemies. They signed a pussyfoot treaty at Utrecht but probably prevented a revolution of the war-weary English masses. They drove Marlborough to exile, but he revenged himself with interest when he returned to riches and honors at Queen Anne's death. They hatched the great South Sea Bubble swindle, but Marlborough forced the Government...