Word: creation
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were outlets for this accumulation, the system managed to get along, despite ups and downs and frequent "cyclical" depressions. The decline of capitalism is the result of old age. Its "historical role" is over. This is owing to the exhaustion of "the long-time factors of expansion"-industrial expansion, creation of new industries, opening up of new land. Stagnation has set in. The forces of production overwhelm the forces of consumption. Demand and supply, profits and wages clash. The "contradiction" arises from the fact that the system lives on profits; to insure profits wages must be cut; to cut wages...
...human soul." Soon walrus-mustached Maxim Gorky opened the First All-Union Congress of Soviet Writers with a speech recommending study of the Russian classics. The Soviet Press, however, firmly declared with Dictator Stalin that the purpose of the Congress is "to apply scientific methods to the creation of literature...
...time now for us to perfect and regularize the position of the spiritual leader of our church. . . . We no longer harbor imaginary fears regarding the creation of a permanent See, without additional jurisdiction, from which the spiritual affairs of the church may be wisely and disinterestedly guided. . . . Frankly I cannot fathom the concern sometimes expressed in the use of one of the most ancient, democratic and venerable titles of the Christian Church. Nobody is fearful of an archdeacon. The most democratic people in the world have lived and prospered under the leadership of an arch-bishop...
...fixed charges, the industry was forced both to reduce theatre admission prices and to attempt to improve the quality of entertainment in the effort to attract more people into the theatres. To accomplish this, the producers invited the public with glamorous and more glamorous personalities. Producers discovered that the creation of such personalities was a costly process and that, moreover, once created, they were always open to the predatory raids of competing producers...
...airplanes 250 miles away. Inventor Tesla would discharge the ray by means of: 1) a device to nullify the impeding effect of the atmosphere on the particles; 2) a method for setting up a high potential; 3) a process for amplifying that potential to 50,000,000 volts; 4) creation of "a tremendous electrical repelling force." Two of these are complete in Dr. Tesla's mind. The other two await minor details...