The great wealth taken from the gold and silver mines was usually invested in other businesses: shipping,railroads,factories, stores,land companies.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

That means that a person can rise from poverty to wealth and success if he or she works hard.

VOA: special.2010.05.16

Space scientists have collected a wealth of information from spacecraft that have orbited,landed on and dug into the Martian surface.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

But the pictures that he and his photographers made left a wealth of history for all future generations to see.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

This year's Forbes magazine list of the world's richest people estimated her wealth at almost two and a half billion dollars.

VOA: special.2010.04.16

"Friendship,position,wealth everything that makes life desirable to an ambitious man were about to be swept away by my answer."

VOA: special.2010.01.28

There was a new effort to build wealth from the bottom up, rather than from the top down.

VOA: special.2011.03.24

The couple stared. "My lady has huge wealth", continued the messenger, "But in one thing she is poor.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

Alaska's wealth in oil, natural gas,trees,fish and animal skins makes its purchase one of the greatest deals any country ever made for territory.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

New York,which always thinks big, was called The Empire State because of its natural wealth.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The company is not an investment vehicle for the government like a sovereign wealth fund.

VOA: special.2009.12.04

But he says they also act as representations of a country's wealth and geopolitical power.

VOA: special.2010.03.31

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle,or the ship;

VOA: special.2009.11.23

Mister Veblen argued that people gathered wealth for the purpose of "conspicuous consumption."

VOA: special.2011.05.01