Word: richest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Finally, last week, the Earl of Rosebery, Baron Primrose, 79, onetime Prime Minister (1894-95), valedicted by reactionaries as "the last Victorian," paused on the brink of the grave (TIME, Feb. 15) to incorporate. His thousands of acres (reputedly he is one of the richest landowners in the United Kingdom) were dubbed The Rosebery Estates, Ltd. Capital stock was issued at a pound a share to a total value of ?362,500 ($1,762,000), half common, half preferred...
...York may be the biggest, Chicago the wickedest, Boston the dullest--but Detroit is the richest city in the United States. By a careful and crafty compilation of figures the Detroit Free Press shows that the individual income tax is largest per capita in the home of Henry Ford. It offers no numbers to illustrate what Detroiters do with their money after they have earned it, but one may presume that if the home town does not offer sufficient entertainment, they are at liberty to depart for points less wealthy and more amusing. Fortunately one does not have to remain...
...troopers, trained to a hair mounted on stallions, wearing gold-braided green uniforms, met him in the mountains. Impressed, Frémont complimented the burly Swiss who led them and the latter, Johann August Sutter, conducted Frémont to an eminence to behold New Helvetia, the largest richest one-man domain in the New World...
...ambition leading him to league with an empire? On the other hand, what now brings France and Germany together.? The clue here is significant. Germany has railroads to sell for credit in reparations. France has willing friends to bid for these, friends who foresee French preeminence in Germany's richest industrial regions whence must come coal for French iron works in Lorraine...
...Five," progressive runners-up to the sacrosanct Bank of England, are, of course, the Midland Bank, with 850 branches; Barclays Bank (richest of the "Five") with 1,000 branches; Lloyds Bank, with 1,650; the National Provincial Bank, 1,125; and the Westminster Bank, 926. The value of the premises is estimated...