Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...total production of our food staples less than that of any year since the beginning of the European War. For war purposes it matters not how little or how much these smaller crops exceed in value these of previous years. Armies and nations are fed with food, not with money; it is the physical material itself which must be produced in adequate amount, be its price high...
...participation is measured in blood and property and shortage in the necessaries of life, rather than in dollars. Such sacrifices cannot be shifted. They must be borne by the members of our own generation. When our Government issues bonds, it means two things. In the first place, the money borrowed will be utilized in buying the essentials of war; supplies formerly consumed at home will be diverted to our army. In the second place, a debt will be incurred which in the future must be paid to the holders of bonds. In so far a burden is placed upon...
...efficiency of future officers and men and at the same time pooled our equipment, experience, and instructors, the result would be a training camp which the Government could back without fear of partiality, and which, we are inclined to believe, it would back much more earnestly with men and money than has been the case with the smaller camps...
...partly the result of ignorance, partly the result of a wilful misrepresentation of economic problems, in the phrase "keeping business booming." We have in our midst the petty business man and the many people who know no better, who profess and carefully maintain the principle of "business as usual." "Money must be kept in circulation. Industries of every kind must be maintained to their fullest capacity." What could be more absurd or harmful to the interests of our cause? We have in our country a definite available supply of goods. We have a definite amount of labor, already diminished...
...clock. Arrangements have been completed by which books may be borrowed for a week at a time. Also, in order that new volumes may be added to the library from time to time, fines will be imposed upon all students who keep books more than a week. The money from fines will be used exclusively for the purchase of new books. A record of each student's use of the library is to be kept in order that the Military Office may have another method by which to ascertain the names of those who are really interested in the activities...