Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop That Tractor. Telephone wires quivered. Officials scurried. In the buckwheat field the implacable plow buried the rich crop in deep furrows. At 11 o'clock a flustered Farmers' Union official raced into the field. "Stop!" he cried. He brought a counter-order from the Farmers' Union, after consultation with the Ministry of Agriculture...
...years as a Near East teacher, which ended last week when he returned to the U.S. to retire, 59-year-old Bayard Dodge had repeated that Good Samaritan act many times and in many ways. It was an act he more than walked through. Son of the copper-rich Dodges, he followed the family path to Princeton but swerved off to study theology. On a Wanderjahr around the world in 1908, Bayard stopped off at the American University of Beirut, in the Lebanon. There he met his childhood friend, Mary Bliss, granddaughter of the university's founder and first...
Along the way he encountered Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd. Steep Rock looked like the kind of big business that Eaton likes. In Ontario, some 70 miles north of the famed Mesabi range, Steep Rock owned fabulously rich iron ore lands with proven reserves of 30 million tons; geophysicists estimated that they might contain as much as 500 million tons, half as rich as Mesabi. The trouble was that the ore lay under Steep Rock Lake and 150 feet of water. Eaton bought control of Steep Rock for an initial cash outlay of only $20,000, and started...
...suspected that one reason for a queen bee's long life might be her rich diet: royal jelly. Royal jelly is exceptionally rich in pantothenic acid (a B vitamin believed to prevent grey hair), and in pyridoxin and biotin (also B vitamins). Dr. Gardner mixed up a brew of these three ingredients and a substance known as sodium yeast nucleate, and fed it to some fruit flies. The exciting result: the Gardner mixture increased the fruit flies' average life span 46%; pantothenic acid alone increased...
Married. Amon G. Carter, 68, bumptious, oil-rich publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram; and Minnie Meacham Smith, 45, Fort Worth department-store heiress; he for the third time, she for the second; in Fort Worth...