Word: money
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were aboard, did not consult the weather bureau regarding weather conditions, did not carry suitable tools, and did not make adjustments for changing the radio receiving set into a transmitter, which would have enabled...
Ballyhooed by this handbill, "Doc" Rockefeller witched dollars out of the pop-eyed citizenry of Midwestern hamlets before the Civil War. Husky, usurious, "Doc" believed sharping made the victim sharp. Hence didactic William sharped his own son out of board-money. That son, grateful for sharpness thus acquired, was, is, John Davison Rockefeller, "world's richest man," whose ninetieth birthday comes next week...
...boyhood beliefs. To propitiate his own Christian beliefs and the public which still embraced them, more than three-fourths of Rockefeller's gifts of $750,000,000 "have been distributed since 1911, the year the public became mathematically conscious of his vast wealth." More than any other's, his money is responsible for Prohibition. To needy institutions went most of these millions. To needy individuals (20,000) went shiny dimes. Once to an indigent old acquaintance Rockefeller sent a pair of shoes
...completely retired from oil. At 7:30, formally dressed, he sits down to dinner. Over the cloth he may tell a tale or two and his audience knows when to laugh. After dinner there is his favorite game, "Numerica." He plays it without cards or money. In bed by 11, John D. wills himself to sleep almost instantly...
...Graft] can scarcely be prevented when private citizens deliberately defy the moral and legal codes of organized society." He tries to stop as short of libel as of praise. Psychologically, his work is a study of the U. S. single-track mind engaged in the prime U. S. occupation?money-making. Historically, the work treats of a career coincident with the entire post-Civil War development of U. S. industry...