Word: vastnesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many years ago their father called them together, told them the parable of seven sticks which separately could be broken, but together were unbreakable. He started them in the mining business with a smelter in Colorado. They prospered, engaged the best brains in the mining business, gained control of vast copper mining properties which produced two-fifths of the world's copper supply. When they sold control of Chile Copper to Montana's Anaconda, in 1923, their Chilean investments alone were estimated...
...prospect, therefore, is a storehouse of all knowledge, a service station to all puzzled learners. Keen-minded citizens saw in so vast a plan no little nobility, some little obscurity...
While Russia's rich peasants (Kulaki) want to reduce their 1929 acreage, Moscow has planned a vast tract, of 10,000,000 acres, where wheat may be grown abundantly and efficiently. As everyone knows, the world's most efficient wheatgrower is Montana's Thomas D. Campbell (TIME, Jan. 14, 1938), world's "biggest farmer." Most natural, therefore, was Moscow's decision to send a commission to the Campbell farm at Hardin, Mont. There, commissioners heard that the annual Campbell harvest tops 500,000 bushels...
Harvard has been reaching out toward the river ever since the opening of Soldiers field and the stadium. Freshman dormitories and the vast new business school have moved the university's centre of gravity still more in that direction...
...office with the rich bank to become a member of the (perhaps) richer Guggenheim Bros. firm. The Guaranty's resources then were just about a half-billion. But the War was on in Europe. Morton died; Hemphill had become chairman, Mr. Sabin president. Under President Sabin the Guaranty sold vast bond issues for the Allies, later vaster ones for the U. S. The War over, he organized his bond department as the Guaranty Co., owned wholly by bank stockholders. The bank was yearly becoming bigger & bigger, richer & richer...