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...suggested the possible establishment of a United Nations Foreign Development Authority to control the world's balance of trade. The foreign investments of the wealthy nations might be regulated by this board, whose purpose would be to develop the home industries of the poorer nations...
...Revere Beach. They are not bothered by the OPA ban on pleasure driving: Revere can be reached by Boston's elevated system, streetcar lines and a dozen bus routes from North Shore towns. Nor are they bothered by the knowledge that they may go home $10 or $20 poorer. They are hungry dog fans. And the old cyclodrome, now named Wonderland, is a greyhound track...
...wisdom, always counseling hope, always sticking to the fundamentals, talking torrentially in a rich mixture of Broadway words and the jargon of high finance. It is this talk, almost as much as his demonstrated ability, that has created the Baruch legend. No man can hear him and go away poorer, for the tall old man has a Lincolnian sense of the humanities, a tolerance enriched with...
...clock forward to V-Day. The German and Japanese military forces will by then have been subtracted. The answer again will be peace, peace in a world that will be at least one thousand billion dollars poorer in goods and equipment than the world of M-Day, poorer by perhaps fifty million men, women and children who might otherwise have survived...
...average 2%, profits are low. In 1942 they were estimated at $400,000,000 (as against 1929's $557,000,000), representing a 6% return on total capital. But many a big bank is undercapitalized in view of its big deposits, so that earnings are in fact poorer than they seem...