Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lived quietly in a great, grey Paris mansion. He was a passionate hunter and a bad shot. He maintained a private game preserve near Paris, but, said a friend last week, he "never went in for displays of wealth. That would not occur to him." In the '30s, the world was swept by a pacifist wave of indignation against the Undershafts and the De Wendels. The clamor against the "merchants of death" was largely justified, but its main effect was to keep the U.S. and Britain from being well enough prepared to prevent World...
...Barton had figured out a sure-shot means of cracking the Iron Curtain: bombard Russia with Sears Roebuck catalogues. "If that day ever comes," he told a San Francisco salesmen's convention, "we will not need any longer to fear Communism. No ordinary Russian ever suspected such a wealth of wonderful and desirable objects exists anywhere in the world as the Sears catalogue presents...
...Christian who did not pity them." Dominican friars indefatigably tried to convert Jews and thus save them from exile. They burst into synagogues to preach the Christian gospel, but rabbis thundered back the teachings of Moses. Some Jews were converted. The majority preferred to leave their homes and their wealth behind. Many Jews removed tombstones from their cemeteries and took them along into exile. Their last ships left Spain the day before Columbus sailed for the New World...
...taken the hint. Last week his troops handed over to the Communists the great industrial and trading center of Kalgan, with all its bulging warehouses and factories intact. No destruction of any kind was carried out. Explained General Fu blandly: "All supplies, factories and manufactured products there . . . are wealth of the people and the property of the nation...
...richer in products, technological talent, material and hard cash than ever before in history. But there was a limit even to its fabulous wealth. How far could its federal Treasury go in meeting all that was expected...