Word: prospered
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...Harry Truman launched the Point Four program of aid to underdeveloped countries in 1949, every President has argued that aid to struggling nations serves the national interest because, as Secretary of State Dean Rusk put it recently, "as others grow in economic strength, so the U.S. will continue to prosper...
Linking North & South. Some lines prosper because of quirks of nature or of men. The biggest, busiest and most profitable of the bridge roads is the 129-year-old Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac, whose 117-mile main line between Washington and Richmond-protected from competition in earlier decades by its part-owner, the state of Virginia-is still the only coastal link between North and South. All North-South traffic takes the R.F. & P.; over it daily thunder 23 passenger trains and ten freights bound from one to another of the six Class I roads (the Pennsy, the Southern...
...Karamanlis' boast that Greece has prospered, Papandreou replied: "Numbers prosper, the people suffer." Farmers, who had benefited least from the boom because of low prices for their goods, got Papandreou's easy promise that he would forgive their debts. Above all, Campaigner Papandreou concentrated on the old 1961 charges of election fraud, cried that he was determined to save the nation from the "fascist and terrorist" policies of Karamanlis...
...prosper at law, it appears, is to belong to a firm, the bigger the better. In Philadelphia, the median income of lawyers who work by themselves is $11,000 a year. In partnerships of two or three lawyers, the median rises to $15,000. With four or five in the firm, the figure is $17,000. In firms where the roster of partners runs to twelve or more lawyers, median income reaches upward to a level that many a successful doctor might find impressive-$28,500 a year...
...company has been under the Schneiders since 1836, when brothers Eugene and Adolphe Schneider started making locomotives and munitions south of the Burgundy wine district at Le Creusot. Under Liliane's elegant and cynical father-in-law, the late Charles Prosper Eugene Schneider, the company shipped arms to most of the world's warring nations. It bought iron mines, foundries and shipyards, and won control of more than 200 arms plants outside France, including Czechoslovakia's Skoda, which it sold to Czech interests just before the Nazis occupied all Czechoslovakia. The French government nationalized Schneider...