Word: wealth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sheng had also helped the Russians into Sinkiang itself.* Because the Chinese Government was weak, distant, and preoccupied with Japan, he had even allowed the Russians to station troops in the province. They built roads, airports, factories, aircraft assembly plants. They began to develop Sinkiang's rich, mineral wealth, bored oil wells and dug wolfram mines...
...Venezuela's 4,200,000 people, 90% live close to the Caribbean coast. They prefer the mild climate, the cities' culture and the wealth from oil to a frontiersman's life in the rough & tough interior. As a result, the winning of Venezuela's West (actually its South) is still a century-old dream. An English colony failed at Betajoque, a French colony in Maracaibo; 30 miles from Caracas, the capital, is the blond, impoverished remnant of a 19th Century German colony. But the old dream lives on: now Venezuela hopes to push back her frontier...
...government and private capital are both in industry there can be competition. . . . The democratic world cannot prosper unless the British Labor Government succeeds." At times Author Fischer fumbles all over the ideological map: "Farmland should be as free as air. It should not be bought or sold . . . equality of wealth would eradicate the power advantage now inherent in wealth.. . . Marx and Gandhi might make a fruitful combination." In his honest but disjointed eagerness to defeat "Stalin with Gandhi," Fischer defeats the coherence of his anti-Communist thesis...
Many of his hearers must have gone away a little disappointed, feeling that Mr. Wallace is not so "dangerous" as he would like to think. Certainly it was nothing new to learn that there are large accumulations of wealth, great monopolies in America, and that these financial and industrial giants exercise a considerable degree of political power. That fact was being driven home very pointedly to shocked Americans during the time when Mr. Wallace was a college student. And Mr. Wallace's charges were far less well documented then were those of Ida Tarbell, Ray Standard Baker, and Lincoln Steffens...
...with the Cash. The buried wealth of Steep Rock had been known for over 50 years, but no one wanted to supply the capital to get out the ore-until the Canadian owners met Eaton in 1942. He had the daring needed to bring out the buried treasure, and more important in wartime, he knew his way around Washington...