Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...billion dollars today would buy no great part of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive real estate, the rich, fashionable section of the secondlargest, second-richest U. S. city. But a billion dollars was all that was asked last week by some Pottawatomie Indians for all the Lake Shore Drive, all the Gold Coast, and a part of the rest of Chicago. In Shawnee, Okla. gathered 1 ,000 Pottawatomies to take the legal warpath, solemnly pledged to recover the cash equivalent of what was once their tribe's hunting ground...
...total collapse of the Schneider Cup Races was a disappointment to everyone concerned, it was particularly disappointing to the eccentric elderly lady who is reputed to be the richest woman in England, Lady Houston, widow of the late shipowning Sir Robert Houston. When Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald last winter announced that England did not have enough money to enter a team to defend the Schneider Trophy, Lady Houston found the situation unbearable. Although she had been enraged when the Government demanded an $8,000,000 inheritance tax on her husband's estate, she swallowed her pride and said...
...richest: Kettleman Hills, Calif...
...acting up." But martial law was no idle threat with Governor Sterling. Many an East Texas producer had begged him to shut in that field by force. After he had perused the new conservation law and received legal advice, he despatched Texas guardsmen under sealed orders to the second richest oil field in the world...
...survived. One hundred and twenty-five miles south of Saratoga, where "tamperers" were last week busy injecting dope in the necks of racehorses, 10,000 farmers, socialites and horsemen gathered at the spry town of Goshen, N. Y. to see the sixth running of the $50,921 Hambletonian Stake, richest U. S. harness race...