Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, as now, East 108th Street was a hard place to live. It was harder to leave. The palaces of Manhattan's power and wealth rose up only a few blocks to the south, but to the poor of Italian Harlem, they were as remote and incredible as the palaces of India. Frank Costello escaped to live in them by a process as devious and dangerous as an escape from Devil's Island. He became a rumrunner, a slot-machine king, a gambler and intimate of killers, a political fixer-and a man of riches and influence...
...happy burgher and well content with his lot. But at other times he seemed like a restless man. He said: "We all got just a certain number of hours to live ... I don't understand why people waste time." Frank Costello, who had once lusted for wealth, lusted for respectability. He was steadily thwarted. He had lived by stealth and secrecy, had avoided newsmen like the plague, but his power and influence had brought him torrents of publicity...
...Born to wealth (his father was a railroad tycoon), Firbank spent most of his short life roaming around the Mediterranean and the Caribbean, halting, as the whim seized him, in a tent in the desert, a palace in Portugal or an old house in Constantinople. He carried around with him a trunkful of objets d'art, including a bronze bull, his own novels bound in white vellum, some colored quill-pens, a "vast tortoiseshell crucifix" and stacks of "those large blue rectangular postcards" on which he wrote both his novels and correspondence ("Tomorrow I go to Hayti," crooned...
...nodtheastern states had begun to ask themselves if their leadership in small industry was finished. But with the discovery a few years ago of a rich vein of iron ore in Newfoundland and Labrador came the hope of an even greater share of the nation's manufacturing wealth. As it stands now, plans are being made to build as steel mill in one of New England's seaports before 1953 and to set up shipping traffic in ore between that port and the mines to the north...
...other American industry, great or small, has forgotten that women own about 70% of the nation's wealth and control an even greater percentage of its buying. More than 90% of the country's advertising is directed at the woman . . . but postwar [motion] picture advertising has been plastered with maniacal killers, rapists, thugs of all varieties . . . The typical woman gets more than she wants of that in the news columns. She is not disposed to go to the [movies] for more of the same...