Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rich Land. The people's calm acceptance of this kind of campaign, and their obvious weariness of the sound of political firebells in the night, were due in part to the country's prosperity. Despite inflation and record retail buying ($10 billion a month), U.S. citizens would put $12 billion in the bank in 1948 as compared with $8.8 billion last year, and $2.7 billion in 1939. Employment still stood at the 60 million mark. Materially, the U.S. was rich-richer than any nation had ever been in the history of the world...
Poor Little Rich Girl. "I used to ride with him, fly with him, fish with him, and just shoot the breeze with him.," she says. She grew up with a fiercely loyal admiration for him. At 19, just out of fashionable Foxcroft School, she went to work as a $30-a-week cub on the Daily News...
Higher Education. In Teaneck, N.J., Louis Rich, 85, enrolled as a freshman at Bergen Junior College, explained: "I'm sick & tired of just the movies and radio...
...They are rich, creamy, and dark complexioned, and an expert panel of non-Pacific veteran tasters has pronounced the sweet definitely "eatin' stuff...
...looked over his 15 acres of peach trees, complained: "I'm losing money for the first time since 1932." Motz had picked all his peaches, but "a lot of the boys," he said, "just left them on the tree. They just didn't sell well." In the rich San Luis Valley, farmers estimated that a quarter of a million crates of lettuce and 70,000 tons of cabbage had been plowed under or fed to livestock. Despite an 11% cut in apple production, some 5,000,000 bushels of apples will go to waste this year...