Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climax was as follows: "Anyone who has witnessed the new invention, the birth of new industry . . . which has so vastly increased the wealth of the world and altered our entire mode of living within the memory of those present, cannot be discouraged about either the immediate or the distant future. The opportunities which have so multiplied in the last generation are only the forerunners of perhaps greater ones, which will come as the result of forces now at work and constantly being discovered...
...clerking job in Buffalo, N. Y., in the frantic year 1849, went to California. By the time his daughter Elisabeth was born in New York nine years later, he and John W. Mackay had amassed the kind of money that starts timocratic dynasties. With a background of intelligence and wealth, Elisabeth Mills was destined to become the financial and gracious helpmate of a great diplomat and an eminent public benefactress. The year 1881 marked the first milestone for both elements in her conspicuous career. Aged 23, she married Whitelaw Reid, potent editor of the New York Tribune. The same year...
Knowing full well how damaging to Alfonso's popularity in Spain are the persistent stories of his great personal wealth, his prudent investments in Britain and the U. S., the Duke of Alba, Foreign Minister in the Berenguer Government, went to great lengths to deny these stories last week...
...scandalous lie to say that the King has deposited millions of dollars abroad to protect himself. He has always invested the greatest portion of his wealth in Spanish interests for the sake of developing his own country. . . . It is more accurate to say that if His Majesty will not actually be pinched by monetary needs at any rate he will be nearer the pinching line than the luxury line and will have to watch his expenses closely...
...economic expansion the world has ever seen. Their methods and outlook were necessarily a product of the environment in which they built, and it is extremely unlikely that any such conditions will ever again be approximated. Mr. Baker was one of the last of the economic pioneers whose fabulous wealth and stormy careers have made the American multi-millionaire a world-wide figure of mixed curiosity and worship...