Word: silents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Proposals, Wealth in the modern world does not come merely from individual effort. . . . The individual . . . utilizes the many processes and forces of mass production. . . . As Andrew Carnegie put it "where wealth accrues honorably, the people are always silent partners." . . . The transmission from generation to generation of vast fortunes by will, inheritance or gift is not consistent with the ideals and sentiments of the American people...
...Wall Streeters took a flier in Technicolor stock on the New York Curb. If John Hay ("Jock") Whitney's Pioneer Pictures, which control 15% of Technicolor, Inc., made an impressive splash with their $1,000,000 production, the black-&-white cinema industry might become as passe as the silent films, and Technicolor would stand as a very profitable colossus at the entrance to a new era in cinema production...
again: The fading footfall and the silent...
...government guarantees, they evidently feared the experiment of again doing business as they had been doing it for 150 years without Federal regulation. Those who feared cried out and those who rejoiced-including consumers who got cheaper cigarets, cheaper liquor, better trade-in allowances on their cars-kept mostly silent...
...world has rarely seen a more thorough job. Survivors claimed that just before 3 a. m. a red light filled the sky and the jackals on the plain fell silent. The earth shook, settled back, shook again longer and more violently, and then once more. "For half a minute the earth seemed to go mad," said a British survivor. "Boughs of trees, normally many feet from the ground, swept the earth. Birds fell from their nests. The moon danced crazily in the sky. The roar I can liken only to the sound of 20 express trains...