Word: richest
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...French economy in 1953 is stuck between feudalism and anarchy. Potentially. France is the richest farm country in Europe, yet she imports $200 million more food than she exports. Her farms are tinier and less economical than they were in 1930. French industry seems to operate on an inverted system of Malthusianism, holding down production to keep pace with the population. When demand falls off. firms cut their output, instead of reducing prices to stimulate the market...
...answer: "Old clothes for the Salvation Army." But the bundle actually contained the body of Lincoln Williams, handsome Negro bartender of the Last Chance Saloon, punctured by two .45 slugs fired at close range. The lady in the car-and she obviously was a lady-was Mrs. Treadway, the richest woman in town. Captain Sheffield, respectable broker and her son-in-law, sat beside...
Feed and Grain Dealer R. C. Young of Lubbock was even more specific. He complained that some of the richest men in Lubbock and Crosby counties were turning up at his warehouse to pay $35 a ton for emergency feed, which he estimated cost the Government at least $70 a ton. "Some of these fellows," said Young, "have more oil wells than most of us have dollars.'' Among them, said he, was Rancher J. S. Bridwell, who is reportedly worth $18 million, and who got a month's supply (21 tons) of cottonseed meal at the Government...
...Chicago's Arlington Park, the Hasty House Farms' colt Hasty Road won the $157,915 Futurity in stakes-record time, 1:10 for six furlongs. Hasty Road took $101,475 as his share of the purse in the richest race ever run for two-year-olds...
Died. Hugh Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 74, second Duke of Westminster and one of the world's richest landlords; of coronary thrombosis; in Loch More, Scotland. Reportedly worth $168 million in inherited real estate (e.g.. 200,000 acres of farmland, 600 acres of London's West End. including the site of the U.S. embassy), the fun-loving duke was a World War I hero, a collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted...