Word: mazur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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AMERICAN PROSPERITY: ITS CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES-Paul. M. Mazur-Viking Press...
Fortunes have been lost in advertising-but not when the product is as sound and as timely as Mr. Mazur's book...
What to do with too much calls for as great courage and acumen as what to do with Mother Hubbard's cupboard. Mr. Mazur draws a comparison: "Europe's problem is that of the man whose farm and workshop have been destroyed and whose family demands the prime necessities, food, shelter, and clothing; whereas America's problem is that of the potentate who must not only maintain but even increase the magnificence of his palace and whose family demands all the furbelows and gewgaws that had once been luxuries but have now become necessities...
...Significance. Let a man mention prosperity in the U. S. today, and 20,000,000 people will cry "myth," while 100,000,000 will cry: "Isn't it grand!" Mr. Mazur takes prosperity for granted, though he admits that it contains a few dark spots. Keen in his own perceptions, he writes in a style that is easy and pleasant to grasp. He gives this booming country better advice than can be found in a fifty-foot shelf of the works of eminent boosters...