Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comparison with 1932 standards the Nazis have raised the level of over-all German consumption. But immediate consumption (which omits money spent for housing construction) is still 10% below that of 1927. Moreover, Nazi economists themselves predict a decline of purchasing power for this year. The regime gains acquiescence from the majority because the industrial working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what...
...these expectations are fulfilled the radio manufacturing business may cackle the loudest, but much of the egg money will be collected by the makers of dry cell batteries. Each portable radio requires one volt-and-a-half "A" battery (price: 50? to $1) and two 45-volt "B" batteries (price $1.50 each). "B" batteries in average use have a life of 250 to 300 hours, but the smaller "A" batteries may have to be renewed after 100 hours of use. The average portable's running cost thus is approximately 1½? per hour, about three times that of operating...
...stage, New Yorkers and San Franciscans were already discussing tall plans for the music Fairgoers were to hear. Tallest planning was in Manhattan, where pudgy, music-loving Mayor LaGuardia had inaugurated a campaign to raise $1,200,000 to finance a World's Fair music festival. With this money, portly Olin Downes, New York Times music critic and Fair music director, proposed to buy Manhattan a festival she would never forget. Two months later news leaked out that the campaign had flopped, that the Fair's most spectacular musical event would be a song fest in the Court...
...countinghouse at Church and Chambers Streets in Downtown Manhattan, with old-fashioned desks, high-backed chairs, an ancient parlor stove, some 60 years ago went a Vermonter named Henry William Putnam to merchandise and distribute his invention-a bottle stopper. Mr. Putnam and his bottle stopper began to make money. Mr. Putnam also invented a glass fruit jar, made more money. In 1898 when, grown old and tired, Mr. Putnam called his son into his office and turned the business over to him, it was worth...
Henry William Putnam Jr. grubbed away in the same office, without changing the furniture, for another 40 years. Tall, blond and solitary, he had only two hobbies besides making money-yachts and Shakespeare. One of his few friends was another student of Shakespeare, Gene Tunney...