Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they still had no home. ¶ At New Jersey's Garden State Park, Mrs. Russell A. Firestone's beautiful bay colt, Summer Tan, slogged through sloppy going in the Garden State Stakes, needed little help from Jockey Eric Guerin to win the world's richest ($269,965) horse race. Summer Tan's share of the purse: $151,095.75. ¶ At Harrisburg, Pa., a team of sharp Spanish riders ran up a three-day total of only twelve faults in nine international jumping classes, to win the 104th Cavalry Challenge Trophy at the Pennsylvania National Horse Show...
...sandwich and began to munch it in full view of his audience. Then, with ostentatious frugality, he wrapped the crumby remainder in paper and carefully stowed it away again. He was vote-catching Jânio Quadros, candidate for governor of São Paulo. Brazil's richest state...
More than two years ago, Ruby McCollum, then 37, wealthy wife of a Negro gambler and one of the richest Negroes in the area, shot to death Dr. Clifford LeRoy Adams Jr., 44, of Live Oak. A white Florida state senator-elect. Adams was the most important politician in Suwannee County, and a man whom local bigwigs said "was gonna be governor, sure...
...County Fairgrounds in Delaware, Ohio, a brown Delaware state colt, Adios Harry, easily outstepped a fast 15-horse field in three heats to win the world's richest pacing prize, the $69,300 Little Brown...
...rich, alluvial topsoil of Algeria's Cheliff River valley has long provided France with one of her richest colonial gardens, but the bedrock that lies under the valley's rich farms is full of treachery. One night last week it was torn and wrenched with such mighty subterranean convulsions that in just twelve seconds much of the valley was a waste of flood water, its principal town Orleansville a desolation of rubble and wreckage...