Word: richest
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...headquarters with his drillers in the field crackled out the news that oil was struck at last. MacPherson sped to the drilling site, found that the drills, at 3,500 ft., had bit into an oil pool that looked every bit as rich as the world's richest, the fabulous Burgan sands in Kuwait proper, 20 miles to the north of the Neutral Zone...
...Bolshevik at 18 (in 1911). An effective job of handling touchy minorities in Turkestan in 1920 won Stalin's attention and a summons to Moscow. Hard-working practical Kaganovich was sent off in 1925, at the age of 32 to boss the Ukraine, Russia's richest area; there, directed the building of Dneprostroi, first great Red power project. A Politburo member since 1930, became Deputy Premier in 1947 and overall boss of the 24 industrial ministries. Tall, intelligent, a good orator. Travel outside the Iron Curtain: none...
...Texan knows, the Lone Star State is the biggest, richest, toughest and most cultured in the land, with the prettiest women; Texans learn all this at their mothers' knees. But last week, in a free-swinging, heavy-handed piece of low humor, Esquire (circ. 819,000) took exception. The article, under the pen name Bernard Dorrity and the title "Let's Secede from Texas," described the state as a "geographical hemorrhoid." Its cotton land "is now poor and desolate," its grazing lands "worthless," its "mean, mangy and narrow" citizens are "boors when sober [and] downright dangerous when drunk...
Married. Weetman John Churchill Pearson, 43, the third Viscount Cowdray (grandson of millionaire Engineer-Oil Tycoon Sir Weetman Pearson), reputedly England's richest man; and Elizabeth Jackson, 26, ex-social secretary to Mrs. Lewis Douglas, wife of the onetime U.S. ambassador; he for the second time, she for the first; in London...
...Anglo-Iranian was far from finished. A bitter blow, the loss of Iran nevertheless turned out to be a healthy spur to Anglo-Iranian, which had grown soft on its 42-year monopoly of one of the world's richest oilfields. Misfortune pumped new life into the company...