`` I have just come from viewing a man who had made the fortune of his country, but now is working all night in order to support his family '', he reflected.

Mrs. Meeker had spent a small fortune on a search for him but had made no provision for him in her will if he should be found after her death, and had never mentioned his name to her lawyers.

With the fortune he made from business among others he built Carnegie Hall, later he turned to philanthropy and interests in education, founding the Carnegie Corporation of New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Carnegie Mellon University and the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh.

Carnegie made his fortune in the steel industry, controlling the most extensive integrated iron and steel operations ever owned by an individual in the United States.

" But he put on pictures that made a fortune.

In 2006, Enya made it to the number three spot in the ranks of wealthy Irish entertainers with an estimated fortune of € 109 million ( i. e., £ 75 million or US $ 165 million ), and number 95 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006 of the 250 Wealthiest Irish People.

Hoover, who had made a small fortune in mining, was the first of two Presidents to redistribute their salary ( President Kennedy was the other ; he donated all his paychecks to charity ).

By 1914, Hoover was an extremely wealthy man, with an estimated personal fortune of $ 4m He was once quoted as saying " If a man has not made a million dollars by the time he is forty, he is not worth much ".

After only a year, Leonardo made a list of his misdemeanours, calling him " a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton ", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions and spent a fortune on clothes.

Benjamin Baum was a wealthy businessman, originally a barrel maker, who had made his fortune in the oil fields of Pennsylvania.

After the Civil War, he made a large fortune supplying lumber to rapidly building Atlanta.

Rice made his fortune in real estate, railroad development and cotton trading in the state of Texas.

Col. Willard F. Rockwell made his fortune with the invention and successful launch of a new bearing system for truck axles in 1919.

Their father was American-educated Methodist minister Charlie Soong, who made a fortune in banking and printing.

Woodhull went from rags to riches twice, her first fortune being made on the road as a highly successful magnetic healer before she joined the spiritualist movement in the 1870s.

She made a fortune on the New York Stock Exchange.

Rice made his fortune by investing in land, real estate, lumber, railroads, cotton, and other prospects in Texas and Louisiana.

After an 1886 or 1887 meeting with a C. Lombardi, Rice decided that the benefits of his wealth should be enjoyed by the children of the city where he made his fortune.

Soon, Patrick made an announcement that Rice had changed his will right before his death, leaving the bulk of his fortune to Patrick rather than to his Institute.

In 1744 Pitt received a large boost to his personal fortune when the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough died leaving him a legacy of £ 10, 000 as an " acknowledgment of the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England and to prevent the ruin of his country ".

Through the persuasion of Jeremiah Dummer, Yale, who had made a fortune through trade while living in India as a representative of the East India Company, donated nine bales of goods, which were sold for more than £ 560, a substantial sum at the time.

Both his parents, Hugo Perutz and Dely Goldschmidt, came from families of textile manufacturers who had made their fortune in the 19th century by the introduction of mechanical spinning and weaving into the Austrian monarchy.

Jos ' death appears to have made her fortune.

But it has been during the last two centuries, during the scientific revolution, that our independence from the physical environment has made the most rapid strides.

His `` monumental '' abstraction, made up of smooth, metallic `` non-objects '' acting upon each other with great tension, won Helion much acclaim during the 'thirties.

Some years ago Julian Huxley proposed to an audience made up of members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science that `` man's supernormal or extra-sensory faculties are ( now ) in the same case as were his mathematical faculties during the ice age ''.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

It was the only sizable assault upon infantry and artillery behind breastworks successfully made by either side during the Atlanta campaign.

Even so, Edward's ambassadors can scarcely have foreseen that five years of unremitting work lay ahead of them before peace was finally made and that when it did come the countless embassies that left England for Rome during that period had very little to do with it.

He was unable to send any more help to his allies on the Continent, and during the next few years many of them, left to resist French pressure unaided, surrendered to the inevitable and made their peace with Philip.

Aug. 4, 1821, nearly a century after Benjamin Franklin founded the Pennsylvania Gazette -- a century during which it had undergone several changes in ownership and a few brief suspensions in publication -- this paper made its first appearance as the Saturday Evening Post.

This was an enormously long building whose walls were made of rocks, some of them brought home from every continent during his six years as an oil geologist.

I pay my personal tribute to Sam Rayburn, stalwart Texan and great American, not only because today he establishes a record of having served as Speaker of the House of Representatives more than twice as long as Henry Clay, but because of the contributions he has made to the welfare of the people of the Nation during his almost half century of service as a Member of Congress.

The maximum amount of payments which may be made pursuant to this Act on account of sales of newly mined ores or concentrates produced therefrom made during the calendar year 1962 shall not exceed $4,500,000 ; ;

the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1963 shall not exceed $4,500,000 ; ;

the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1964 shall not exceed $4,000,000 ; ;

and the maximum amount of such payments which may be made on account of such sales made during the calendar year 1965 shall not exceed $3,500,000.

The sequence of events leading to his important discovery still remains ambiguous but it seems that one of the advanced students at the university related that the first direct event that led to the publication of Oersted's discovery occurred during a private lecture made before a group of other advanced students in the spring of 1820.

Industry sources are now estimating that 75% of the signs made during the 1960's will be of plastic construction.

Moreland sat brooding for a full minute, during which I made each of us a new drink.

Since a Skeletal Age rating can be made at any age during growth, from Elbow, Shoulder, Knee, or Foot as well as Hand, it seems to be the method of choice when one wishes to study most aspects of skeletal developmental progress during childhood.

Albert ( 1949 ) has concluded that the most active preparations of TSH made during this period, from 1931 to 1945, were probably about 100 to 300 times as potent as the starting material.