Word: accountants
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...class have generally been granted, to date amount to some $219,000,000. The high mortality in applications for large mortgages is a limiting factor in FHA's ability to promote a building boom. But in normal times, one-family and two-family houses account for 60% of the dollar volume of U. S. residences. Thus FHA insurance remains a potent tonic for U. S. building. With Government backing added to general recovery, many a builder looks forward to 1936 residential contracts totaling $1,000,000,000. And the next five years should see new accommodations for at least...
Readers raised on textbook history may scarcely recognize the Revolutionary War that is fought along strict Marxist lines in The Crisis of the Middle Class, but they are likely to remember Author Corey's account of the intrigues and maneuvers of a professional revolutionary of the middle class named Samuel Adams. In Boston, Adams organized a secret and illegal branch of The Sons of Liberty, originally a mechanics' society, urging demonstrations, boycotts, violence, to force changes in British laws that blocked colonial enterprise. Although concessions were granted in 1770, wealthy merchants were not won over to the idea...
...pleas for naval action against the aggressor. Now in parallel circumstances the lordly power takes measures of intimidation and oppression against the new aggressor, and induces a large part of the rest of the world to join in righteous indignation. No explanation other than imperial interest can begin to account for these merry-go-round tactics...
...only the central and crucial part of the Spanish, empire," but also with the vast sweep of ocean where Spain's enemies concentrated their attempts to destroy her power. Philip Ainsworth Means's imposing history of the Spanish Main consequently includes colonial problems as well as accounts of pirate raids, unfamiliar items on the conquest of Peru, discussions of Indian psychology and developments in European politics that affected life in the new world. Beginning with a broad description of "America on October 10, 1492," it gives a fresh account of the impact of the discovery on Europe, where...
That the AAA program is not "a program", but a mass of conflicting ideas at war with other equally unharmonious branches of the government is well known. But Garet Garrett's surprisingly objective account of its complexities, in these days of political and meaningless rhetoric, is much needed. Once there is compulsion to limit production and raise prices "there is a kind of progression to it" until the AAA becomes almost all-embracing in scope, and affects people in ways other than their productive capacities. Thus the AAA, which by its nature must be relatively static, and based on supposed...