Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mighty in war and peace, nitrogen is the base of many a chemical product. A vice president of International Agricultural Corp. has said that in the future "nitrate production and not gold will measure the world's wealth." To Chile the problem is most immediate, for when the Government removed the export tax it expected to benefit equally by sharing in Cosach's profits. Failure of these to materialize was largely responsible for Chile's financial crisis of last week...
...Civil War was an Indian "buck.'' Indians saved the Plymouth and Virginia Colo nies from starvation. Indians developed the useful plants-corn, tobacco, potatoes, rubber, chocolate, the best commercial varieties of beans and cotton, to mention only a few-that comprise five-eighths of the agricultural wealth of the world today...
...crossed flags of Denmark and U. S. on its side. The Danish flag stood for youthful Pilot Holger Hoiriis's native land. Liberty is the name of the little town in New York's Catskills where German-born Otto Hillig, 55, owner of the plane, amassed modest wealth as a summer resort photographer. Now these two were going home in style: the big, taciturn, painfully bashful Dane, and the small, voluble, jocose German with his bald head. Punch-like nose, towering collar and baggy trousers...
...likely to think first of George Washington Crile's Cleveland Clinic. That is Dr. Crile's private business. Native Clevelanders first think of Lake-side Hospital, fondest philanthropy of Cleveland's famed Samuel Mather. He has been its president 32 years. To it he j has diverted much wealth from his vast iron ore, coal and steel business (Pickands, Mather & Co.). Lakeside has long been the teaching hospital for Western Reserve University's school of medicine. The two institutions used to be downtown, a half-mile from Mr. Mather's mansion on lower Euclid Avenue. The increase of smoky Cleveland...
...that summer vacation working for his father's Cleveland Iron Mining Co. as timekeeper and payroll clerk. He convalesced in Europe for two years and returned directly to the family business. He amplified it until he became rated Ohio's richest citizen. Unlike John Davison Rockefeller, he and his wealth did not move away from Cleveland...