Word: basic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...BASIC WRITINGS OF SIGMUND FREUD-Edited by Dr. A. A. Brill-Modem Library...
...chance to see for themselves where Freud stood as a writer, when his faithful disciple, Dr. Abraham Arden Brill, brought out a handy, 1,001-page collection of six of his major works. The demonstration was not quite fair to Freud. For Dr. Brill included as Freud's basic writing heavy, abstract works like his Totem and Taboo, which is an important contribution to psychoanalytic theory, but hard reading for laymen. He left out such Freudian classics as The Case of Miss Elisabeth R, and The Case of Miss Lucy R. These early works of Freud, simply and artfully...
...Professor Hanson, no substantial revival occurred in these three fields in the recovery of 1935-1937. Although there was a real boom in the production of automobiles and some other durable consumers' goods and a very considerable investment in industrial plant and equipment, capital expenditures remained low in the basic fields of housing, railroads, and public utilities...
...useful to attempt an examination of the influence which recent tax measures may have upon the basic conditions that determine the status and development of the American economy." Such is the purpose of the work. The first part is an analysis of the various and conflicting factors and trends, the net result of which is the familiar thesis that the need for savings and capital investment in America is on the decline, and that in the future long-run we are faced with a problem of over-saving. "No technical events are in prospect at the present time which...
...world headlines Sir John Simon figured last week as the man who had just raised the basic British income tax rate to 27½%-but this was more astonishing to less heavily taxed foreigners than to Britons, for they have been paying 25% anyhow. Excited about 27½%, the New York Post put through a transatlantic telephone call, asked Fleet Street reporters to coax in a few Lodoners at random off the street to be questioned by New York. A van driver (truck driver), George Merrick, said: I think it is a very fair tax for the working...