Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ends the markets for war-built industries collapse and those who have built them may lose their investment. But the plants so built are not lost. New markets are eventually found for basic industrial products and the greater part of such industries remain as assets to society, producing real wealth...
...Within a century," Mr. Nash wrote, "New Zealand has been transformed from a virgin wilderness into a land where 1,600,000 people enjoy the amenities of modern life. Wealth has been won and is being won in rich abundance. . . . The country has proved a valuable field for British emigration and investment, a first-rate market, a dependable source of foodstuffs...
...Aristocrat Clews carefully restored the chateau and gardens, stocked the whole place with white birds and animals (to his white pigeons he had tiny flutes fastened, which whistled musically as they flew), worked when he felt like it at sculpture, writing, painting. La Napoule's villagers regarded his wealth, his largesse and his talent with open admiration; celebrities from far and near beat a path to his door...
Effect of the first lilacs on Judge Hardy is to make him an easy prey for a couple of swindlers. Andy and his father eventually cool off, to the accompaniment of such a wealth of domestic detail, adolescent humor and sage headshakings that hyper-domestic cinemaddicts will have a wonderful time. Those who dislike Mother's Day will be apt to feel that they have just been through it again...
After 1850 Western mines produced an average $50,000,000 a year in gold and silver. That golden figure is the key to the uneven lives and works of San Francisco's frontier writers. With few exceptions, gold brought them West. Gold brought the sophisticated, cosmopolitan population, the wealth and leisure that make readers, writers and publishers. Because gold was elusive, restlessness and skepticism became a familiar literary tradition. Because male Argonauts outnumbered female twelve to one, traditions of rough-&-ready humor and violence grew apace...