Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colombian politicos did not seem disturbed by the virtual shutdown on wildcatting. Their country was bigger than Venezuela, they reasoned, with coffee, gold and other cash products besides oil. Many even argued that an oil boom would hinder the country's all-round development, and pointed to oil-rich Venezuela's deficient agriculture and industry for proof. "What will Venezuela have to show for lying supine before the drillers?" snapped a young Colombian oil-ministry bureaucrat. "Holes, that...
...Stanley Marcus, balding boss of the Dallas-in-Wonderland Nieman-Marcus specialty shop (its specialty is selling chichi clothes to rich Texans), went the Chevalier Award of the French Legion of Honor, for "eminent services to the cause of French industrial and commercial recovery...
...London's liveliest dailies splashed the story over Page One. After reporters learned that the Yard was hunting five other missing persons, the tabloid Mirror, the world's largest daily (circ. 4,000,000) and London's most sensational, promptly cried "Bluebeard" and headlined: HOW MANY RICH WIDOWS DIED...
...digest imported culture since the days of Hernando Cortes, and has been having a continuous bellyache in the process. But inside the museum's marble halls last week, work men were uncrating the paintings of one Mexican who took Europe in his stride and came home to en rich his country with great art that it could call its own. His name: Diego Rivera. The crates in the Palace of Fine Arts held 500 pic tures ranging from the academic studies and cubist experiments of Rivera's student days to the power fully realistic productions of his maturity...
...Detective Story, his sixth play and the first since 1943, he worked for two years, haunting a Manhattan detective squad room, the District Attorney's office, judges' chambers. For a month he was on 24-hour-call with the Homicide Squad. The research finally got so rich that Kingsley went off to the country and wrote the play without looking at his notes. But, at a rehearsal, some 60 detectives seemed pleased with the results...