Word: wealthiest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more important source of private income comes from refurbishing such shoddily mass-produced essentials as clothes, shoes and furniture. One of the wealthiest men in Moscow is an expert cobbler who specializes in fixing boots botched in the cooperative repair shop and, complained one Moscow newspaper, can afford to fly all 19 members of his household down to a Black Sea resort every summer. A good dressmaker lives equally well, can pick and choose her customers, and takes only those with the best references-and the most money. Minor house repairs are another lucrative source of private income: a Literaturnaya...
Nestled among the warm brown hills of the San Fernando Valley, hardly a bone's throw from some of the wealthiest Los Angeles suburbs, lies a brilliant green oasis of more than 300 acres, which at first glance seems to be a golf course. On closer examination, the oasis turns out to be none other than Forest Lawn Memorial-Park, the Versailles of cemeteries that Novelist Evelyn Waugh (The Loved One) celebrated as the supreme expression of the American Way of Death...
...wonder if Khrushchev is aware that America is more Communistic than Russia. We vote by our own free will to tax ourselves for the good of our neighbors-the wealthiest to pay the most taxes. We give to "drives" for the public good; rich men endow colleges and research foundations. Not so in Russia, a totally non-Communistic country, where nobody shares anything except at the point of policemen's guns. Nikita may learn something from a visit...
...world's wealthiest nation is booming at such a solid rate that the very measure of wealth-money-is harder to come by than in many months...
...Rome, but the city fathers made the mistake of siding with Pompey against Julius Caesar. For this the city was fined 300,000 measures of oil annually. Later still it became the home town of a Roman emperor, Septimius Severus, who made it one of the grandest and wealthiest cities of the empire. Nubian slaves, lions for the Roman arenas, ivory and African gold flowed through Leptis Magna into the civilized world, until the harbor silted up. Marauding Vandals sacked the city. Then, in A.D. 523 Berber raiders depopulated it. Sand crept in and swelled through the streets,, clogged...