Word: scrapyards
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...sliced his annual privy purse from $667,000 to $266,000, and inheritance taxes have cut into his estate. But life does have a bright side. The new Nizam is an auto buff, and in the royal garage are 56 cars, only four of which work. "I inherited a scrapyard," the princely grease monkey says happily. "I have a lifetime's work before...
...took no interest in parades, and rode around in a bulletproof Cadillac with windows so small that he could sit back without being seen. He didn't even splurge on a mansion. A bachelor, he lived in a frame house across the street from an automobile scrapyard. He never went off to Florida, Saratoga, or Europe, was never photographed under palm trees or on streamliners...