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Opponents of the pair forfeit their political heads. Madame Nahas and her brother, a businessman, are today among Egypt's richest people, though their family never had much money. With no visible source of income other than her husband's salary, Madame Nahas so far this year has bought no less than 750 feddans of land (778 acres...
...religion, and friendship for the U.S., though he is furious at President Truman's support of Israel. Ibn Saud used to live off tolls he collected from Mecca pilgrims, but the Arabian-American Oil Co. proved even more lucrative, made Ibn Saud one of the world's richest men. He is too old and complacent to go out of his way to help the West or assume active leadership of the Middle East...
...breadbasket was full; for the first time in years, the government prepared to offer wheat for export at the annual Zagreb Fair in September. But farmers were threshing only a fraction of it. On the collective farms (which cultivate 25% of Yugoslavia's farm land-the richest 25%), the peasants alibied that the threshing machines had broken down. Their three-year hitches on the collectives would be up this fall, and many were signing petitions...
Burgundy is just a good red wine nowadays, but 500 years ago it was Europe's richest dukedom, spilling from the Alps to the Zuider Zee. Beefy burghers, dressed in furs and velvet, thronged its towns, paid out hard silver for the works of its artists and craftsmen. Last week a sparkling display of the things they bought drew 11,000 visitors to Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. The armor, jewelry, tapestries, illuminated manuscripts, furniture, banners and polychromed sculptures on show reflect one of the most sumptuous eras of all time...
...keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already held an illegal monopoly. Tu became one of China's richest, most powerful citizens until he fled the country ahead of the Communist advance in the spring of 1949. In his will, he exhorted his close friends to "carry on my principles of serving my country selflessly...