Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coach Janvrin seems to have a wealth of battery material and may start either Gorman, Lainer, Sprague, or Taylor on the hill...
...which gushed sudden wealth into eastern Texas last winter (TIME, Feb.2), caused horror and tragedy there last week. Near Gladewater, Sinclair Oil Company's No. I Cole well was brought in. Instantly the null gusher went wild. While 14 men were trying to get the well under control, a spark caused by tool friction suddenly turned a plenteous natural blessing into a howling inferno. Some of the workers managed to dodge out of the flames, two jumped for safety into the slush pit where they were boiled alive. The rest were quickly roasted. Fatalities, originally estimated at twelve, then...
...circulation of about 10,000 until 1924, when Mrs. Francis Neilson decided that she could play "angel" no longer. Last year the magazine was revived as The New Freeman by Peter Fireman, a Russian-born chemist who came to the U. S. 49 years ago and amassed moderate wealth in the paint business (Magnetic Pigment Co. of Trenton...
...finance, and yet, unlike Ford or Rockefeller, his name alone would not carry. Mr. Baker would have to be explained, but there was scarcely a note in all the newspaper files with which to particularize the remote legend of a chop-whiskered old man of great wealth. His philanthropies were many, exceeding in recent years $12,000,000. To Harvard he, a non-college man, gave the $5,000.000 foundation for the School of Business Administration. But in all his life he gave only one real interview and that was to say: "Business men of America should reduce their talk...
Eaton and Charles Otis which led to Mr. Eaton's partnership in Otis & Co. in 1915. As Mr. Eaton attained more and more power and wealth, Mr. Bishop kept a fatherly interest in the spectacular trend of events. Last week he must have deeply lamented the irony in the fact that the chief of his duties at present is in dealing with the numerous law suits which Mr. Eaton's management of Continental Shares brought forth...