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Especially his own real estate, oil wells, farm land, art collection, precious metals, gems, rare coins or antiques. Those articles are spiraling upward in value even more quickly than prices generally; for the people who own them, inflation has brought a bonanza of new wealth. A rundown on the inflation beaters' favorite investments...
EVERY SO OFTEN, the neglected house of music literature is adorned with a fresh coat of paint. The Pushbutton Telephone Songbook is the latest example. Out of nowhere comes this slim but precious volume, this musical breath of fresh air that gives readers the same sense of joy an infant feels eating warm pablum on a cold winter morning...
Joint Venture. But many Canadians do not like the idea of sharing control of the pipeline-and hence, of a precious natural resource-with Americans. Moreover, some U.S. Government officials privately question the political wisdom of a massive joint venture now that Canadian nationalism is on the rise...
...extract your shale or tarsands. So I said let us start with the bottom price of $7; that is the government intake. Suddenly everybody started to shout foul. Why don't you use coal and shale for electricity or to heat houses, and keep this precious petrol for the petrochemicals for another 300 years to come...
Unlike Fitzgerald, Faulkner never replayed these struggles in his writing. In fact, precious few of the thousands of personal details Blotner offers shed any new light on Faulkner's novels. That is not the point Blotner wants to make, but it is an extraordinary discovery. And it is most tantalizingly true of the years between 1928 and 1936. But those years mark a time of creative intensity unparalleled in American letters, when Faulkner turned out Sartoris, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom...