Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waldemiro Lima of the Federal forces maneuvered importantly in this fifth week of the revolution without producing any concrete results. President Vargas issued a decree last week calling for three new infantry battalions and 800 more cavalry troopers. It was admitted that the Federal troops have had no great success. A grand mass offensive with airplanes, tanks, artillery and infantry was promised for next week...
...reserves, set him back two years. As a senior Bewick, Moreing partner he made $125,000 per year, not counting directors' fees and bonuses. By 1908 when he left Bewick, Moreing to work for himself, he was worth $500,000 or more. His biggest venture and largest success was the Burma mines, producing lead, silver, copper and zinc. In 1914 his Burma shares were worth $1,141,465. Friction developed with his partner and in 1915 he started to liquidate his Burma mines holdings. From them he got between $2,654,000 and $3,142,000. As consultant...
Prudently the Irish Free State made no keynote demands, Mr. O'Kelly declaring, "We most earnestly hope that the Conference will be a success, whether or not the people of the Free State can share in the ultimate benefits." Thus he alluded to the tariff war between the Mother Country and the Free State...
...possible is the ambition of the English woman!" said Mrs. Runciman firmly. "A further tax [on food] would take a lot of explaining." Drawn out at greater length Mrs. Runciman said in substance that the British consumer will not submit to higher food prices even to ensure the success of the Conference. She appeared to assume that a tariff shutting non-Empire food out of the Mother Country would inevitably result in the Dominions charging higher prices for their food, even though it should enter the Mother Country duty free. Since Mr. Runciman is a leading British financier, industrialist...
...three such fevers run their course is the book's story. Good luck with cod, phenomenal success with lobster potting, lead them to quixotic ventures with a salmon net that almost cost their lives. How the two brothers are benighted at sea, in mist and storm, how their broken gaff is found on the beach, their bodies hunted in vain until their coble, laden with salmon, breaks through the morning fog between the scaurs, is, with all the rest of their adventures, told with a simplicity and salt that has not lost its savor for having been used in older...