Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only had Chillán been destroyed; the full force of the quake had torn up a vast, 450-mile-long segment of the narrow nation. Some 20 towns and villages throughout Chile's richest agricultural and mining regions had been leveled. At Concepión, Chile's third largest city, 70% of the buildings were on the ground. Chillán, hardest hit, looked from the air like a mammoth anthill overturned. Its church spires and jagged masonry protruded through the debris. Its surviving residents scrabbled in the ruins for the dead and injured. In the countryside...
...richest rewards among the four new peerages, two baronetcies, 35 knighthoods and miscellaneous decorations distributed went to a gifted scientist who has brought his subject to the masses and a sailor who has brought the British Navy up to snuff. His Majesty was graciously pleased to add Sir James Jeans (The Mysterious Universe, etc.) and Admiral of the Fleet Lord Chatfield to the Order of Merit (British membership limited...
...Producer Pascal acquired possession of the world's richest mine of entertainment material would be as good a story as how the heroine of Pygmalion acquired the poise of a duchess but for the fact that it is utterly implausible. A squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, ex-farmer, cavalry officer and economist. Producer Pascal's best previous contribution to cinema was Franz Lehar's Frederica. His reward for the ripple of applause which it aroused in 1932 was a succession of minor jobs producing shorts...
...richly stocked smörgasbord table spread each month by U. S. magazine publishers, the first and daintiest forkfuls of reprint rights generally go to the oldest and richest customer-famed, slightly fabulous Reader's Digest. The stout little Digest totes the biggest plate because it pays the biggest prices, has kept the good will of its hosts by refusing advertising. Sometimes it makes other magazines presents of free, full-length articles which it then digests and "reprints...
...books in the black every year. Net of $1,007,213 last year was due largely to Government subsidies, plus the fact that the line's 18 small ships (none over 9,350 tons) share a virtual monopoly with the Italian Lines on the hemisphere's second richest trade route...