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Word: musts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Eccles claim that the total amount of debt (public and private) is no greater than in 1929: "As you know, our national income is only 60 billion dollars, whereas for 1929 it was 80 billion dollars. The income out of which these debts must be paid has shrunken 20 billion dollars. . . . Our burden is the same. Our strength is much less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Byrd to Eccles | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Quoted from Thomas Jefferson: "To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. ... As the doctrine is that a public debt is a public blessing, so they think a perpetual one is a perpetual blessing, and therefore wish to make it so large that we can never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FISCAL: Byrd to Eccles | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Accountants, New York City's bouncing Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick last week boasted that in five years the LaGuardia unco-honest Fusion Administration had cost taxpayers $325,664,347 less than the last five years of Tammany rule. The Citizens Budget Commission looked at his figures, said he must have meant $125,664,347. So he did, replied Mr. McGoldrick, confessing a $200,000,000 error...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Arithmetic | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

Coming Crisis. This week Father Augustin Volosin, Premier of Carpatho-Ukraine said in Prague: "Of course we Ukrainians feel that a nation like ours . . . must some day . . . form its own State,but . . . Carpatho-Ukraine cannot work for the creation of a Great Ukraine. Our little country is far too small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EASTERN EUROPE: Liberation | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...Godwin is an electrical engineer, Dr. Walker a chemist at Armour Institute of Technology. Both picked up photography as a hobby. In high-speed photography the shorter the exposure time, the more intense the illumination must be to produce a satisfactory impression on the film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quick as a Flash | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

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