Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...raised the level of over-all German consumption. But immediate consumption (which omits money spent for housing construction) is still 10% below that of 1927. Moreover, Nazi economists themselves predict a decline of purchasing power for this year. The regime gains acquiescence from the majority because the industrial working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what they were getting per capita...
...been a general in the Red Army and had fled from Russia for his life. General Krivitsky proved to be an articulate foe of the Stalin regime. He gave out interviews declaring that the purged Bolsheviks were innocent, that Stalin was betraying both the Soviet Union and the working class. Last December General Krivitsky came to the U. S. Last month he began publishing a series of articles in the Saturday Evening Post...
...Chief Clayton Bishop of the Onset (Mass.) Fire Department: the 130-mile outboard motorboat race down the Hudson River from Albany to New York City; in 3 hr., 11 min., 22 sec.; breaking the record for Class B boats (16-h.p. motors, 100-lb. hulls); and setting another record by becoming the first driver to win the race twice...
...earnings expectations of U. S. railroads are anything but rosy. Class I roads had a net operating income of $85,808,000 in the first quarter this year (against $19,963,000 in the first quarter of 1938) but after paying their fixed charges they were $41,880,000 in the hole.* This loss is likely to increase in the second quarter as receding industrial production drags carloadings down with it. Lately many roads (particularly the B. & O.) have suffered acutely from the coal strike, for carrying coal is a big and profitable traffic...
...Nelson showed his independence and his taste by hiring his friend Diego Rivera to paint a fresco for Rockefeller Center. This turned into a famous, first-class educational incident for all concerned. When Rivera's great mural was destroyed-for the public reason that it contained a portrait of Lenin-the Rockefeller family suffered once more in the eyes of liberals, and Nelson, naturally, took the rap. At first he was strong for showing the mural, sins and all, at the Museum of Modern Art. Then he came around to his father's view that the less said...