Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could henceforth share its $20,000,000-per-month relief bill with the Federal Government or it would get no more Government allotments. "Pennsylvania," snapped he, "gives me a pain in the neck. I've been fooling around with it for months. It's one of the richest States in the Union. Everybody admits they can put up the money. Even the City of Brotherly Love never put up a dime. I don't care how Pennsylvania gets the money, but I'm through until it does. I'm sick of having...
...block to try domesticating a wanderer. Gus's evening found him unchanged as ever, hardened irrevocably in his ways. A grandfather now, with his children leaving home for the specious advantages of town, foreigners and automobiles invading his old-fashioned peace and wont, Gus was rightly reputed richest man in the countryside, but it never affected his clothes or his habits. He still worked hard, took his butter and eggs to market himself, pulled his own teeth...
...sign of fading vogue since a patent medicine man named Pemberton first concocted it in 1886. Every management that takes control makes more money than its predecessors. The Candlers of Atlanta, who got the company in 1892, rose from humble druggists to become one of Atlanta's richest families. Asa Candler sold out for $25,000,000 in 1919 to a group of Georgia capitalists headed by Ernest Woodruff, who with his son, President Robert W. Woodruff, now controls the company.* Since 1919 Coca-Cola has earned more than $120,000,000, split its common stock...
...evaporation. The tons shrank to hundredweights, the hundredweights to pounds, the pounds to ounces. Last week Chairman Hugh Stott Taylor of the Chemistry Department announced that Dr. Selwood's final residue is ten drops (half a gram) of heavy water containing one part of tritium in 10,000- richest sample of triple-weight hydrogen in the world, possibly rich enough to reveal something of its properties...
Thus the Juilliard undertook to "save the Met" and the Press applauded roundly. An embittered minority wondered why the world's richest musical trust had been so leisurely and obvious with its salvage...