Word: richer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Possible solution to Undercurrent's basic mystery: too many studio cooks. In the bigger, richer movie-manufacturing plants, executive geniuses are sometimes too helpful in telling the real picture makers how a picture should be made...
Myths and legends have been written about fat wartime wages and savings. These are being disproven by the reports, from the Federal Reserve Board and Bureau of Agricultural Economics showing that the rich got richer and the poor remained poor. One of every five families in 1945 had less than $1000 income; another group of more than one-fifth had less than $2000 income. Wartime savings are concentrated almost exclusively in families well above these income levels...
Privilege. In Prince Albert, Sask., angry citizens protested against a new local tax on outdoor privies, said it made "the poor poorer and the rich richer...
...solution, says Knox, is to make the poorhouses richer by selling them what they most need: U.S. know-how. Last week, as a starter in his new job, Knox made just such a deal with China, one of the poorest of the world's poorhouses...
...facts of life, both apiarian and human. "Within each hive all bees are devoted to each other. But when a tired bee drops into a foreign hive," he sighs, "he is immediately asked for his passport. Often, in times of scarcity, a group of bees swoops on a richer hive. War ensues. Always it is the law of numbers, of strength, that determines the issue...