Word: richest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deficit with the dollar area was still a huge $3.7 billion. Equally alarming, the Payment Union itself was out of balance. Some IOUs (e.g., Belgian francs, Swedish kronor) proved "harder" than others, easier to convert into dollars. The richer nations grew richer, the poor got poorer. Richest of all were the Belgians and their trade partners, the Luxembourgers, who had piled up an unmanageable EPU surplus of $750 million...
...those 41 years, Alice Gould has made quite a name for herself in her special wonderland, for the Archives contain the world's richest collection of documents about the Spanish exploration of the New World. Ever since 1778, when Charles III ordered that all letters, papers and maps concerned with the colonies be assembled in one place, scholars have been flocking to Seville. But the most tireless researcher of them all-from Washington Irving and Martin Fernández de Navarrete to Harvard's Samuel Eliot Morison-has been Alice Bache Gould...
...grubbed his way around the veldt in search of diamonds. But when he found them, the jeers stopped-especially those from the diamond cartel run by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, head of the famed De Beers syndicate. Oppenheimer & friends-were scared. Williamson had discovered one of the world's richest mines and could easily crack the cartel wide open. He turned down offers from the cartel, and started selling diamonds on his own. But, in 1947, when the diamond market hit the skids, Williamson joined the cartel...
...self-determination. The Egyptians had 1) named King Farouk Sovereign of the Sudan and 2) let it be known that they considered the pro-Independence party in Sudan (the Umma) a collection of dogs and British lickspittles. For the Sudanese, Umma Leader Sayed Abdul Rahman el Mahdi,* the richest man in the Sudan, had threatened a holy war if the Egyptians tried to get back in. The impasse was complete...
...Chief of Staff for Materiel after the war, K. B. Wolfe was concerned over the backward state of U.S. aircraft armament. Convinced that private enterprise could do a better job than the Army, he talked to Emil Georg Bührle, owner of Oerlikon and probably Switzerland's richest...