Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the flow can be maintained even when the St. Lawrence River is frozen over. Later, Petrofina plans to branch out to Western Canada and eventually to have service stations from coast to coast. The company has already leased some 5,000,000 acres of Western Canada's richest oil lands as a potential source of supply for future growth...
...During the next 25 years the French will get 90 million tons of coal from the Saar's richest field at Warndt; 66 million tons they will mine themselves, the remainder will be mined by the Saarlanders, delivered to France and paid for at cost in French francs...
...their value in question. For another, the old Nizam abruptly fired a man hired to count and appraise his trunks full of jewels when he heard the job would take a year. "Why, the man's salary would have been fabulous," he said. The Nizam, if not the richest man in the world, is certainly close...
...before him and he had all the running room he needed. His late speed was astonishing. He rushed up to Fabius who held on gamely, head and head, for a few strides and then faded. Needles whisked under the wire, winner by three-quarters of a length in the richest ($123,450) Kentucky Derby ever...
Married. Juanita Deere, 34, altar-prone Creek Indian oil heiress, famed for giving birth to a 9½lb. son by Caesarean section at the age of eleven, daughter of the late Woosey Deere, reputedly the richest Indian woman of the hard-pressed '30s; and John Jackson, 30, Negro service-station attendant; she (by her own count) for the 18th time, he for the second; in Tulsa...