Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ways, the Prince-Primate lived like the parish priest. In his vast, gloomy Esztergom palace, he used only a dining room and a bedsitting room (never heated) where he received visitors. On the table which under Mindszenty's predecessors bore the exquisite weight of geese and pheasant and rich Hungarian wine, only one hot meal a day was set before the Primate. On Fridays, he ate only bread & water as a sacrifice for Hungary's liberation from Communism...
...most responsible for the hemisphere trade is a Spanish-born (1889), Chilean-raised, U.S.-trained salesman for Hays named Eladio Susaeta. His first employer, a rich Chilean rancher, sent him north to study animal husbandry at the University of California. Susaeta wrote his boss what he learned about milk-rich Holsteins, convinced him that milk could be as profitable as the beef on which Latinos concentrated. Returning with a B.S. in 1917, Susaeta brought several head along with him. He later stocked a ranch of his own with los Holsteinos, began promoting them far & wide. Ultimately he gave...
...time the fire was out, eleven of the twelve murals, the works of an unknown artist of the 8th Century, had been baked to oblivion. The rich reds and greens of the originals, which the loving care of generations of monks (and recent injections of acrylic resin) had helped preserve, were gone; the delicately-draped Buddhas and elegant Bodhisattvas were only faint black outlines on the smoke-smirched plaster...
...when a Cincinnati buggy-maker named Bob Hedges bought into the St. Louis Browns baseball club, he got a bargain for his $35,000. In 1916 he sold out for $525,000. Since then nobody has been able to get rich owning the Browns, a chronic second-division club...
...White Company, Sir Nigel, Micah Clarke. But soon he realized that that man Holmes was stalking him as remorselessly as if he were a criminal. He tried to shake Holmes off by demanding "impossible" prices for Holmes stories-only to find that the publisher gladly paid up. Doyle became rich on Holmes-and sick to death of him. When doctors told him that his young wife would die of tuberculosis in a few months, he went to Switzerland with her. Earlier that year he had written The Final Problem, in which he drowned Holmes in a waterfall. The consequence...