Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General José Flores da Cunha, one of the original backers of the Vargas 1930 revolt which gave him the Presidential foothold, deposed recently as Governor of the rich state of Rio Grande do Sul in a clash over Vargas-usurped powers, exiled himself in Uruguay...
Helen Bartlett (Carole Lombard) had to tell lies. She did not always gain by lying; she often lost, but she had to tell lies because her way of seeing things made them so fascinating, so endlessly fecund in rich if fanciful possibilities. Her husband, Kenneth (Fred MacMurray), was entirely different. He was the kind of lawyer who would volunteer to defend a truckman against the charge of stealing hams-but refuse when he found out his fee was to be paid from the sale of the hams. Helen Bartlett lied to the butcher, the grocer, the man from the typewriter...
Last month President Cardenas neatly split the opposition by a deal with Mexican Eagle Oil Co. (an affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell, which controls 60% of Mexican oil production), yielding it full control of the rich Poza Rica field in return for royalties of 15% to 35% of the petroleum produced (TIME...
Print order for the U. S. Rising Tide, at R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., big Chicago printers, jumped last week from 500,000 to 800,000. Already the magazine had been snapped up wherever it went on trial sale. Fortified with $50,000 donated not only by rich, anonymous friends, of whom the Oxford Group has plenty, but also by less well-to-do Groupers-in all 5,000 contributors-its editors hoped to break even on the venture. Said Rev. Samuel Moor ("Sam") Shoemaker, chief U. S. lieutenant of Dr. Buchman: "It will have every American talking about...
...Dutch-owned island of Java has been a rich hunting ground for investigators of the human family tree. In 1890 Professor Eugene Dubois found the first fossil bones of the famed apeman, Pithecanthropus erectus. Another early type found in Java, Homo soloensis, shows affinities with the Neanderthalers of Europe and the Rhodesian men of Africa. The fragmentary skull of a child, christened Homo modjokertensis, appeared to be in extremely ancient ground, but its features were too undeveloped for exact anatomical comparison. Two years ago primitive tools were found in Java, including points, scrapers, cores, and hand-axes typical...