Robinson's athletic honors may not have brought her the fame and fortune her modern-day equivalents enjoy, but it did not diminish her passion for the sport she had left such an indelible footprint on.
By fate or good fortune, it coincides with the Day of Saint George.
Honoring Ganesh (known in Mumbai as Ganapati), the elephant-headed Lord of wisdom, good fortune and obstacles, the 10-day festival sees thousands of huge Ganesh idols displayed in "pandals" (pavilions) around the city.
Like other insiders of his day, he made another fortune playing shorts on the way down, then spent the Great Depression buying up underpriced assets at fire sale prices, using his cash hoard to quickly enter new businesses like liquor distribution the moment Prohibition was lifted.
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He fashioned himself as a modern-day Andrew Carnegie who used his fortune to build libraries.
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In Salzburg in the mid-1930s, he had the good fortune to work as assistant to two of the day's top conductors, Bruno Walter and Arturo Toscanini.
His only good fortune: the fact that the accident happened the same day the ICRC team was in his area.
This day is a time to take stock of the fortune we have known and the kindnesses we have shared, grateful for the God-given bounty that enriches our lives.
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American Cotton Oil is part of present-day Unilever, American Tobacco was folded into what is now Fortune Brands and National Lead is NL Industries, to name a few.
This year Manchester United was eliminated in the group stages of the Champions League tournament, a change in fortune that contributed to a 35% drop from a year earlier in match-day revenue and a 37% decline in broadcasting revenue.
"The pitch is being monitored twice a day, but with the under-soil heating being on it's costing us a fortune, " added Dempster.
The truth is that one of the fortune 500 companies that asked Manuel to sell their machines gave the numbers of coffee that could be sold within one day.
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Grandpa may have made a fortune in the steel business, but to assure the prosperity of his descendants someone must diversify his investments against the day when steel is no longer a growth business and his progeny are numerous.
Despite the uncertainty, Bricken says companies are still rushing to join what she calls the "secondary risk market, " the modern-day equivalent of Seattle's early entrepreneurs selling pickaxes, supplies, and services to prospectors seeking their fortune during the Yukon Gold Rush of the 1890s.
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