Word: riches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stalin. Now she is fat and ugly; but once she was slim and (her friends remember) beautiful. Once she was warmhearted, shy and full of pity for the oppressed, of whom she was one. Now she is cold as the frozen Danube, bold as a boyar on his own rich land and pitiless as a scythe in the Moldavian grain...
...transferred the Biblical settings to Mexico.* Given Chariot's Mexican materials, a lesser artist would have done something picturesque, suitable for pious tourists, but Chariot's pictures were more than halfway abstract: the figures were squared off to look like pottery dolls and the colors were arbitrarily rich and sweet...
...anybody thought the meat packers were getting rich on the present market, they had another think coming. Armour & Co. last week said that livestock prices had gone "far beyond levels warranted by the selling price of meats." Armour had tied up so much of its cash in inventory that it could not pay a dividend. Its stock promptly dropped 2⅜ points to 10¼, the low for the year, and touched off selling in other meat-packing stocks...
Phenol & Foxes. Sharp-eyed George Humphrey always seems to be looking ahead. Long before steelmen began worrying about exhausting the Mesabi's rich ores, his pilot plants were seeking economic ways of extracting the plentiful lower-grade taconite ores. (To find new iron ore sources, Humphrey's explorers, supplied by air, are also probing in Labrador.) Though many think coal a dying industry, Humphrey and Standard Oil Development are building a pilot plant to make gas (and later gasoline) from coal by burning it right in the mine. Three years ago Humphrey moved into Durez Plastics & Chemicals...
...create the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 1933, after the worst bank panic the U.S. ever had, the Government put up $289 million. Since then FDIC has become rich from the annual dues (one-twelfth of 1% of total deposits) of its 13,582 members, and piled up a reserve of more than $1 billion. A year ago, FDIC started paying off the Government loan in installments...