Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only 8% of the populace have annual incomes big enough to permit purchasing more than basic essentials. That these 8% put a large amount of their money into savings instead of buying consumer goods is theoretically of no consequence since the savings are available for investment and consequent increased creation of capital goods. But for the past 20 years the volume of U. S. savings thus available for industrial expansion has exceeded the public's capacity to purchase goods. This situation can best be remedied, according to the Brookings theory, not by reducing production or by sharing the wealth...
...Pittsburgh Plus" had never been challenged, since the company consented to the action, Big Steel hastened to file an appeal against this 14-year-old cease-&-desist. By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall. All that was needed to make Big Steel jump again was the creation of President Roosevelt's Monopoly Investigation. Its first meeting was scheduled for last week and it was common gossip that U. S. Steel Corp. was No. 1 on its agenda...
Regional Planning. The creation of seven "little TVA's" throughout the land is the dream of Senator Norris of Nebraska, who sired big TVA. The President put this program on his Must list for the special session last fall, let it be forgotten when the ruckus within TVA broke out. Last bill on the subject submitted was "National Planning Act of 1938" by Representative Joseph Mansfield of Texas, which proposed to curb floods, improve navigation, conserve water, soil, forests, etc., did not mention Power...
Main characteristics of the plan are the creation of two wide axes cutting Berlin into four parts, a series of four concentric rings of boulevards around the axes' intersection. The 30-mile East-West axis will run from the Lustgarten, connecting Unter den Linden, Charlottenburger Chaussée, the Heerstrasse. Crossing the East-West axis in the Tiergarten will be the North-South axis, which will run for 24 miles from suburban Wedding, past the old Lehrter station and the Reichstag, to the west of the famed Brandenburg Tor, over the Potsdam Bridge, out toward Schöneberg...
...Most spectacular of the bunch, a near-genius creation of canniness, stupidity, bombast and lust, is the half-articulate Rumanian Jew, Grain-broker Henri Leon, whose "deposit technique" marks the perfect blend of speculation and double-crossing. When Leon has a love affair with a smart Hollywood adventuress, he incorporates the partnership as the Margaret Trust, of which he holds 49% of the shares...