Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...collection of character studies, "Gus the Great" is superb; as a continuous story, it falls somewhat short of the mark. Mr. Duncan throws out a wealth of threads during his novel and has difficulty weaving them into a satisfactory knot at the climax. Important characters clash in a weird and incongruous way. While others are forgotten entirely. But regardless of the flaws in its construction, "Gus the Great" is a monumental work, showing both penetrating insight and real sympathy for the circus...
...Slave Law." As the convention began all this wealth, power and ballyhoo was committed to relentless war on the Taft-Hartley...
Almost all Kansas farmers had made plenty. Estimates of 1947's value of crops and livestock topped $1.5 billion, up $400 million from last year's record farm prosperity. That gain alone exceeded the total farm wealth produced in the state in many a thin year. Wheat was the bonanza; 1947's phenomenal crop and 1947's soaring prices added up to more than $660 million for Kansas wheat alone...
Insolence Regained. The New York Yankees, a team of wealth, poise, and the standoffishness of rich kids, had gone into the Series 2-1 favorites. Venturing into the vast, triple-tiered Yankee Stadium to give battle, even the Dodgers were on their dignity and obviously respectful. By the second game they were playing like demoralized sandlotters, dropping sure catches, and swinging feebly at the plate. It wasn't until they moved to Ebbets Field and breathed again the stimulating air of Flatbush that the Dodgers recovered their normal insolence. By then the odds were 6 to 1 against them...
...requires a stretch of the audience's credulity to accept a last minute repair job that permits the boat to chug blithely away from the whirling maelstrom. Similarly, the happy ending never would have happened had Joan Webster remained in character as the girl who intended to marry for wealth rather than love. Either Miss Webster really didn't know where she was going all along, or else J. Arthur Rank diverted her in the direction of the American box office...