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How does a young man from Nebraska progress to being one of the world’s wealthiest people? Follow along as Tidbits chronicles the story of this remarkable achiever. • Warren Buffett, the son of an Omaha stockbroker, got an early start in the investment business. Spending many hours at his father’s office as a child, Warren could be seen at the blackboard there, chalking in stock prices. At age seven, he borrowed a book from the Omaha public library, One Thousand Ways to Make $1000, and he was on his way! • He was just 11 when he handed over $114 to invest in three shares of Cities Service Preferred stock. He learned about the volatility of the stock market when his stock quickly dropped Did you hear about the family who got stuck by on Peter Pan’s Flight for over 3 hours? $9 a share, but held on until he made a $6 profit. Apparently, their vehicle would neverland. was delivering newspapers • Atnever 13, Buffett and selling a horseracing tip sheet. He filed his income taxes at that tender age, being sharp enough to claim his bicycle as a $35 deduction. At 14, he dipped into his savings and bought a 40-acre farm for $1,200. During high school, he partnered with a friend to buy a used pinball machine for $25, which they set up in a barbershop. In less than a year, they owned several machines, and sold the business for $1,200. RLOOT D OBuffett ANW • A mathematical genius, wasM able to Home of “Mission to Mars,” “Space add large columns of numbers in his head, andMountain,” and “Finding Nemo Voyage” seemed to have a natural-born aptitude for business. Yet Harvard Business School rejected him, causing Buffett to enroll at Columbia Business School, where he had earned a Master’s in Economics 1. degree Disneyland Parisby age 21. By gradu2. hisFrontierland ation, savings account totaled $9,800, the 3. The equivalent of Monorail $101,000 in today’s money. Space Mountain •4. After two years of working at an investment 5. Fantasyland firm, at 26, Buffett started up his first partner(continued on next page)

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WARREN BUFFETT (cont’d): ship, and a year later, was operating three partnerships. He and his wife and children moved into a five-bedroom stucco house in Omaha, purchased for $31,500. • In 1965, when Buffett was 35, he assumed control of Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerate holding company. While under his control, the company became owners of GEICO, Dairy Queen, Fruit of the Loom, BNSF Railway, among many others, as well as owning a significant share of Kraft-Heinz, American Express, Wells Fargo, Coca-Cola, Bank of America, and United, Delta, Southwest, and American Airlines. • In 2008, Buffett was the richest person in the world, with a net worth of about $62 billion. For several years, he and Bill Gates had traded places as number one and two. In 2009, Buffett dropped to number two with $37 billion, after donating billions of dollars to charity. Between 2006 and 2017, Buffett gave away nearly $28 billion. He has challenged other wealthy people to give away the majority of their fortune. • Although Buffett owns a $4 million dollar house in Laguna Beach, California, he spends the majority of his time in that stucco house he purchased in Omaha in 1957. He loves the game of bridge (plays 12 hours a week!) and enjoys playing the ukulele. • Even with his hefty donations, in the last quarter of 2018, Buffett’s estimated worth still topped $90 billion, making him the world’s third-wealthiest. Not bad for a guy whose yearbook picture notation read: “likes math; a future stockbroker.”

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This week, Tidbits makes the journey into the Grand Canyon, located in Arizona’s northwest corner, 90 minutes from Flagstaff. • The Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, flowing west through the canyon. The River has an average depth of 100 feet (30.5 m), an average width of 300 feet 91.4 m), and an average flow speed of about 4 mph (6.4 km/ hr). The Colorado River winds along for 277 miles (446 km), separating the canyon into the North and South Rims. The canyon is larger than the state of Rhode Island. • The canyon’s average depth is about 1 mile (1.6 km), but its deepest point reaches to 7,800 feet (2,377 m) at the North Rim. At its widest point, it’s 18 miles (29 km) across. • Native Americans built villages within the Canyon and its caves thousands of years ago, and have inhabited the area continuously. It’s regarded as a holy site by many of the tribes that populate it, including the Hopi, Navajo, Havasupai, Paiute, and Hualapai. • The first documented viewing by a European was in 1540, when Garcia de Cardenas, a member of Spanish explorer Francisco Coronado’s expedition, traveled to the South Rim, along with Spanish soldiers led by Hopi guides. It was unseen by Europeans for the next 200 years. • John Wesley Powell was the leader of the canyon’s first official U.S. government-sponsored expedition through the Canyon in 1869. Powell had served during the Civil War as a cartographer and topographer, and had lost most of his right arm in battle, yet this didn’t deter him from making a three-month trip down the Colorado River, enduring dangerous rapids, loss of much of the group’s food supply, and the sinking of one of their boats. Two years later, Powell, who was now a geology professor at an Illinois university, led yet another expedi(continued on next page)

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