Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fullest deposit vaults are in the big International Settlement and the French Concession at Shanghai. There are only guesses as to how much wealth (foreign and Chinese) is on deposit there, but if Japan, already forced to tighten her belt to carry on the Chinese "incident," could get her hands on these riches, they would help her in financing the rest of the war. While Chinese diplomats profess optimism over the military situation, no one was surprised when they warned Occidental powers sympathetic to China that the question of whether Japan wins or loses now depends largely on how firmly...
...Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains for the system that gave rise to them...
...pardon. They form into the body of soviet law measures initiated, approved, determined by the Communist Party-though Party decrees are theoretically binding only on Party members. They are the shadow of the Party, moving when the Party moves. Bigger than military questions is the problem of how much their moves mean to the 23,000,000 industrial and office workers, the 93,500,000 peasants and artisans, who in time of war will be compelled to protect the State, and who for 20 years have made sacrifices for its future...
...Production of shoes, in a country which produces one pair a year per person, declined by 38,000,000 pairs in 1938. After the famine year of 1932 consumption of foodstuffs jumped: average working-class family in Moscow got twice as much meat, twice as much butter and sugar. But in 1932 only 35,000 tons of butter were sold in the Soviet Union, only 49,000 tons of milk. (U. S. consumption: 51,128,000 tons in 1932.) But by 1935, 207,000 tons of milk were sold...
...tons of household soap, 82,000,000 Ibs. more than they bought the year before. They bought 73,000 more tons of confectionery, spent 104,000,006 rubles for wine, banked 347,000,000 more rubles, used 24% more sugar, spent 16.3% more for manufactured goods, bought twice as much cotton goods as they had in 1933, bought from their cooperatives 250,000 bicycles, 200,000 phonographs...