Word: enrichment
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...checkered career Cyrus Eaton found he had old, reforming Senator George Norris on his side. "The Power Trust." said the frail Senator in a prepared statement, "is caught at its old tricks. ... It happens again that the holding company is robbing its own subsidiaries, in order to enrich itself." Rejoined Willkie: "Completely and absolutely false." Back came George Norris with another blast to the effect that the cost of the stock deal would be reflected in electric rates paid by Michigan consumers...
...outbreak. Word of it was finally brought to Bounty Bay by the crew of a Tahitian tramp. That was before a best-selling trilogy and a four-star movie made Pitcairn Island the most publicized hideout on the seven seas, and prompted a well-meaning, sympathetic U. S. to enrich the 200-odd hybrid islanders with all sorts of civilized niceties, including a powerful amateur short-wave radio station, VR6AY...
...kept dark because of the sellers' craving anonymity; most big deals rumored have yet to be signed & sealed. Biggest is the French purchase of South American copper; 25,000 tons a month for six months. If it goes through, the deal will amount to $42,000,000, enrich U. S. coppermen with South American mines. The chief war orders whose existence could be confirmed last week were...
...will be as leaven for the loaf of literature. From the fruitful subject of the British Army, the new belles-letters may range to many other fields. The saga of air warriors, the sombre story of submarine crews--these are just a few examples of the themes that will enrich the literature of the future. It will be a virile literature, spurning the foetid abnormality of recent novels. With war lords as its patrons, and the blood lust of Europe as the well-spring of its existence, a new literature is about to blossom...
...will not permit certain individuals to enrich themselves while others give their lifeblood. We are calm and resolved. We are not haunted like our enemies by fear of a long war. We think only of one thing: Complete victory. That victory we will consider won when we can give France the security which Hitler's projects destroyed for three years...