Word: prosper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enough to have wealth and comfort and money and credit. There is necessary something greater: spiritual wealth-freedom. ... An America half slave and half free . . . cannot prosper...
Object Lesson. What would happen to the U.S. economy in 1947 was inextricably tied up with a bigger long-run problem: What would happen to the world's economy? J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc.'s President George Whitney said: "If this country is to prosper we must try to help raise in some measure the standard of living in other countries and thereby bring about a wider market for our goods...
...brought up, there was no money for such luxuries as college. But Bill Pereira was ambitious, so he figured out a scheme with his elder brother Harold. Hal got a job as a draftsman, helped pay Bill's way through architectural school. When Bill finally began to prosper, he paid Hal back by taking him on as a partner...
Both nations are controlled by men who were friendly toward the late, unlamented Axis powers. Both nations contain numerous refugees from Germany and Japan. The governments of both nations are so constituted that they can continue to prosper only in an atmosphere of suspicion and nationalistic club waving. The type of threat which they present is one which by now should be well understood by our government. Yet, these unregenerated banditti proceed to sow the seeds of war, unmolested...
...settle in fertile Uganda, but he found his followers would go nowhere but to Palestine. He shouted his cause so loudly that even those who found his black-bearded, top-hatted figure ridiculous realized that the Zionist organization he had created was a force that would survive him and prosper. But by 1914 there were only 12,000 Jewish colonists settled in Turkish Palestine...