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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week the actual fighting strength of the U. S. Navy was upped 10,000 tons when, in a bleak windswept ceremony at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the eleven million dollar cruiser Pensacola was officially commissioned. In ten minutes three flags were broken out, the watch set, the ship's clock started and the galley fires lighted. The Navy Department with one eye cocked on the London conference took this occasion to remark: "Events of recent years have proved only too clearly that a keel laid is not necessarily...
Felix. On his oil field tour Secretary Wilbur saw for himself one of the defects of voluntary agreements. Just outside the Kettleman Hills "shut-in" is operating the Felix well of Petroleum Securities Co. (a Doheny concern), wasting 30 million cubic feet of gas per day. Vainly have the Kettleman operators tried to get the Felix well to reduce production. As Secretary Wilbur was traveling back to Washington, he read news of a terrific explosion at the Petroleum Securities brand-new plant for removing gasoline from "wet gas," a disaster which killed a foreman, destroyed a $500,000 plant...
Together they own the largest and what should be the most potent pair of newspapers in Great Britain. They can and they do shout every day not with a mere million tongues but with six millions. Viscount Rothermere's blatant Daily Mail has the largest circulation of any newspaper whatsoever.* Allied in policy, and partially interlocked with the Rothermere interests by stock holdings, are the scarcely less potent papers of Baron Beaverbrook, often called "bounder" by British aristocrats, born and christened William Maxwell Aitken in Canada...
...million citizens of the I those who see these words will nearly all believe them to be flatly contrary to fact, will promptly forget them. But of the 150 million citizens of the Soviet Union, many if not all who read will stoutly believe...
Rich Men. In 1927, eleven people had incomes of $5,000,000 or over. In 1928, 13 others joined this select group. Million-dollar incomes increased from 290 to 496. While not all millionaires necessarily have a millionaire's income, and some people with millionaires' incomes often fall far short of the seven magic figures in actual wealth, during 1928 exactly 42,613 people reported incomes of $50,000 ($1,000,000 @ 5%). In 1927 there had been only 33,695 in this class. Not only rich men grew in number, as the following table of total people...