Word: richest
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...while, it seemed to be working. Backed by Big Business, Connally's campaign, the richest ($4.3 million) of an candidate's, seemed to be gaining strength everyday. It appeared only a matter of time before the tough-talking Texan would be unstoppable. There would be no grass roots for this man: he would overwhelm an entire nation...
...every day that a call from Riyadh to Buenos Aires is misdirected to Statia, but a mention of the island evokes an identical response from almost everyone: St. What?. was not always so. In its 18th century heyday, 8-sq.-mi. St. Eustatius was the richest free port in the Americas, with a population of more than 8,000 (now 1,400), visited by 3,000 ships a year. During the American Revolutionary War, vessels from Statia (pronounced Stay-shuh) shuttled arms and supplies to the rebellious colonies. On Nov. 16, 1776, the armed North American brigantine Andrew Doria, flying...
...foot-deep topsoil are perfect for grain cultivation. Kansas and Oklahoma are wheat country. Just north in the hardy soil of Illinois and Iowa lie the great corn belt and vast fields of soybeans. Farther north, in the Dakotas and Minnesota, grow wheat, soybeans, sugar beets. Here is the richest farm land east of Eden, where the biblical seven years of bountiful harvests are usually followed not by famine but by seven more years of plenty...
...reduce it to very basic human emotions: resentment, the desire to emulate, the desire to undermine. That is the lot necessarily of anyone who is in the forefront of historical change, who happens to be the richest and the most innovative and also the freest...
...nearly 75% of the 160 million oz. that it used last year, but the price rise has led to a surge of new investment in domestic mines, notably in Western states. Production in the Coeur d'Alene district in the rugged northern panhandle of Idaho, which is the richest silver region on earth, has held steady at about 18.5 million oz. annually over the past five years, but is expected to rise to 20 million oz. during 1980. Still, shortages will persist, and that suggests rising prices...