Word: richer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deliberately abandoning an economy of welfare-in which, as in the richer democracies, a variety of goods is produced for universal consumption and the productive machinery is merely tapped, not regimented, for the use or revenue of the State-for an economy of warfare, Germany has developed out of her eco-nomic past a new and unique type of economy. The Italians have to a lesser extent followed the same method and the eagerly imitative Japanese have copied Nazi procedure since their Chinese adventure...
...last month Baltimore's Evening Sun delivered a fatherly lecture to Johns Hopkins University. The Hopkins had lately lost (mainly to richer institutions) many eminent men: Nobel Prize Physicist James Franck (to University of Chicago...
...Consulate. French customs officers caught wind of the "smuggling," began a search. Seventy-six Loyalist officers and men were arrested, fined 18,000,000 francs and sentenced to jail terms ranging from one month to two years for evading customs laws. By last weekend the French Government was richer by some $397,000 worth of stones. It intended to apply the money thus raised to feeding the 380,000 Loyalist refugees it harbored. Last week 70,000 of the latter elected to return to General Franco's Spain...
...feet into the earth; from its honeycomb of stopes come 12,000 tons of nut-brown ore every working day. A ton of Frood ore contains 95 pounds of copper, 47 pounds of nickel, and the farther the shafts pierce toward the earth's core the richer the ore becomes...
...Richer or poorer, Dr. Funk's country was last week certainly getting hungrier. Butter, cream, other fats, some meats are rationed in Germany. Eggs, common vegetables often disappear from market. Non-nutritive but ingenious excuses are left in their place by the Propaganda Ministry. A recent onion shortage was blamed on an "onion corner" by "international Jewry." Last week Germany was being given excuses instead of coffee...