Word: richness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital which he sponsored. Their children may attend three Iowa colleges which he aided financially. Newtonites who on Frederick Louis Maytag's 75th birthday in 1932 were working for The Maytag Co. shared a $153,000 gift from him. After he died last year, 79, rich and full of good .works, some 200 Newtonites got legacies of $1,000 to $50.000. All Maytag employes of three years' standing who missed out on the birthday largesse received...
...Leader John L. Lewis would be invited to her daughter Evalyn's Newport debut party, if & when she has one. Said the owner of the famed $300,000 Hope Diamond: "I am devoted to Mr. Lewis. Years ago father taught me to be sympathetic to labor. If the rich don't recognize labor they'll bring their house of cards down upon their ears...
...Going to Be Rich (Gracie Fields, Victor McLaglen, Brian Donlevy; TIME, July...
...What rich, reticent, scientifically-bent Howard Hughes was thus modestly dismissing had been a flight so precisely steered that it extended only 20 miles more than the direct course planned around the top of the world, although almost every mile of it was flown by instruments, often against fiercely adverse weather conditions. Halved had been Lindbergh's 33½-hour time to Paris, halved the late great Wiley Post's solo dash around the world five years earlier...
...exceeded the public's capacity to purchase goods. This situation can best be remedied, according to the Brookings theory, not by reducing production or by sharing the wealth, but by increasing the public ability to buy. This in turn can best be done, not by taxing the rich and subsidizing the poor, not by Governmental spending, not by raising wages, but by a sustained industrial policy of cutting prices. Price reductions, say the Brookings books, are a basic part of the capitalistic formula-but for one reason or another in the last 20 years have fallen into disrepute...