Word: richest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When the richest nation on earth permits seven million-nearly a third-of its school children to be taught by a quarter million teachers who receive less than $750 a year, and 30,000 poverty-stricken teachers who receive less than $450 a year, there is need for an awakening of civic pride in the discharge of obligations to children...
...Meanwhile at Bilbao and in the 15-mile swath of Rightist advance last week the Leftists had lost the richest iron mines, the largest smelters and steel mills and some of the finest munitions plants in all Spain. As any sophisticate of the armament business would expect, correspondents found that the manufacture of projectiles had not even been interrupted. The whirling lathes whined on, turning out gleaming 75-millimetre shells which would now be paid for by the Rightists, whereas a few days before they had been paid for by Leftists. Not only did Rightists attacking planes never bomb these...
...begins his career at the age of 26, earns $2,800 a year and expects to retire at 55. This pertinent information was brought to light last week by Fidelity Investment Association of Wheeling, W. Va., which queried 3,500 professionals. The youngest was 19, the oldest 66. The richest has reaped an average of $11,500 yearly, the poorest $1,068. Less successful as investors than as breadwinners, the golfers reported they had lost $11,000,000, or over $3,000 per man. Three out of four readily admitted that financial worries hurt their game...
...enjoyed- the cornerstone-laying of London's new mosque. To be built on a $140,000 site in West Kensington, the Nizamiah Mosque is so called because the biggest donation for it, $300,000, was wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present chairman of trustees, Sir Abdul Qadir, read an illuminated address...
...never been attacked by as modern an army as Generals Franco & Mola had at their command last week, nor was the capture of the city so vital a point in any of Spain's previous civil wars. On the hillsides northwest of the city are some of the richest coal and iron mines in Spain. If Italy and Germany could get access to these for their rearmament program, their entire investment in the Spanish war might be justified and the galling defeat at Brihuega might be forgotten. If the Basques could stem the drive against their capital it would...