Before it was buried under silt, dust and its own collapsing buildings, it was a prosperous hard-working town, the kind where the mule drivers' union would have its own bathhouse (as it apparently did) with steam rooms, a pool and a gym.
The happy life style of the prosperous, hard-working Watanabe family was shattered by Pearl Harbor.
"Sound good?" The preparedness industry, always prosperous during hard times, is thriving again now.
The United States is a great nation; rich by grace of God and prosperous by the hard work of its humblest citizens ... Drunk with power we are leading the world to hell in a new colonialism with the same old human slavery which once ruined us; and to a third World War which will ruin the world".
It was less introspective and less retail-oriented – after all, even on the prosperous Upper East Side it's hard to find a registered Republican to glad-hand.
"My father's biggest achievement was to motivate the South Korean people, to show them we could become prosperous if we worked hard," she said in an interview last year.
As Thailand becomes more prosperous, it is getting harder to fill dirty, low-paid and risky jobs.
Gwynne pulls readers through an American frontier roiling with violence and political intrigue, as Parker transformed himself from a warrior to a prosperous cattleman and a hard-bargaining politician.
And they're starting to have some of the problems that Japan had as they became more prosperous and it was harder for them to compete at low wages.
That unhappy perception is based in part on the seemingly plausible, but essentially false, belief that higher taxes make it harder for prosperous people to buy the special things they consider to be their just reward. .
In those days, German workers worked hard and grew prosperous, earning higher wages as the factories they worked in became more efficient.
