Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before in the history of the College has 'sucha wealth of pre-gaine information been available for prospective delivers into the my stories of the local best-seller known as "The Final Announcement of Courses of Instruction to be Given by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences...
Maurice Goldblatt is a brash, unpolished little man who dedicated himself at an early age to a relentless pursuit of wealth. He made a pile. In the process, he became one of the ranking merchant princes of Chicago's famed State Street...
...distracted and most uncertain time, carried over six continents and seven seas a brightness so simple it was hard to understand. Its appeal was too nearly universal to be explained by such words as "glamor," "publicity," "sentimentality," or even by harsher and more present words, such as "power" or "wealth." Of the millions who spoke and wrote of it, perhaps a London linotyper and an archbishop came closest to saying what it meant...
...agricultural country, has been growing industrially for years. There were 25,000 manufacturing companies in Canada in 1939; there are more than 30,000 now. This year, Canadian firms are spending $443 million on plant expansion-nearly 50% more than they spent in 1946. Most important, Canada has a wealth of iron. While deposits in the famed U.S. Mesabi range run steadily lower, Canada has begun to exploit vast new iron ore deposits in northern Ontario and on the Quebec-Labrador border...
...Less wealth-conscious than the Yales, less collegiate than the Dartmouths, the sophisticated gentlemen from the banks of the Charles also are rated "handsome, witty, and considerate...