grubstake
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But Hagan also lavishes praise upon Wenner for building a media empire from a tiny grubstake.
From New York Times ● Nov. 27, 2017
With a $50 grubstake from her father, Ms. Bündchen set off alone on a 28-hour bus ride to São Paulo and an improbable lifelong journey.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2016
At the firm's start in 1985, Schwarzman and co-founder Peter G. Peterson shared a secretary and oversaw a grubstake of just $400,000.
From BusinessWeek ● May 7, 2009
In 1942, with a $40 grubstake, he opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
He told Westerberg he planned on staying until April 15, just long enough to put together a grubstake.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
The empire he rules was founded in 1867 when Cleveland's Dan Rhodes grubstaked early explorers of the Mesabi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Luckier than all the prospectors were the traders who grubstaked them.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Kaiser-Frazer Corp., which has been grubstaked by the RFC to just about all the Government money it can get for its auto business, struck it rich in the private money markets last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Reconstruction Finance Corp., which has grubstaked Kaiser-Frazer Corp. to some $50 million, last week decided to ride along on the mule as well.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hundreds are being liberally grubstaked and experienced miners are in active demand.
From All about the Klondyke gold mines by J. Armoy Knox
He used to say: 'When you are grubstaking, you take chances.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first stage in the development of a mine is grubstaking the prospector.
From Time Magazine Archive
Potent in State politics, he became popular by his generosity in grubstaking ranchers and prospectors.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's named after Walter Scott, a flamboyant prospector and veteran of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, who conned a millionaire Chicago insurance executive named Albert Johnson into grubstaking a worthless mine.
From Time Magazine Archive
I want you to tell me who it was grubstaked you that winter you needed grubstaking mighty bad.
From Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance by Marcus Horton
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