Word: pilings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last year Banker Giannini decided that his personal fortune was too big. He hurriedly put $500,000 of it into a fund for bank training and medical research. His explanation: "Hell, why should a man pile up a lot of goddamned money for somebody else to spend after he's gone?" His estimate of his wealth today: between...
...many scientists, though interested in atomic power, are more interested in the radioactive materials from the Oak Ridge chain-reacting pile. These promise a scientific revolution...
Last week they came as usual to the paper-windowed bungalow in Tokyo's Harajuku district, but no one answered their knocking. They peeked inside. There, in a blood-soaked pile of quilts and blankets, lay Nizaemon, his wife, his baby, an old housemaid, and an 11-year-old servant girl. Tossed into Nizaemon's garden was an ax, sticky with gore...
...Webb was busy counting a pile of coats when J. P. Morgan, the younger, walked in. Said Morgan: "Good morning, Mr. Webb." Said Mr. Webb, looking up: "Oh, good morning, Jack...
Bulls for Buses. "I can just see that damn pile of pink pesos down there waiting for American business," groaned a Commerce Department official in Washington last week. But whether much of that money went to the U.S. depended on how quickly the U.S. could forget the way Argentina's rulers cottoned up to Nazi Germany in World War II. For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds...