Word: vitality
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rigid economy is so necessary, it seems that a less vital organ of the University might have been curtailed: the appropriations perhaps, for those less essential appendages, the military and naval science departments. The present status of the University treasury does not seem to demand the saving of a few thousand dollars for the hampering of the primary educational tool at any time and least of all during the reading period...
...National Government itself. If it were possible to do national planning in which every business would fit nicely into the groove set for it, there would be no problem. But economic adjustments are bewildering and baffling. Conditions change every day and government regulations and laws play a vital part nowadays in bringing about those very changes in circumstances that sometimes make all the difference in the world between profit and loss...
Just now the most vital question ahead of us is whether the government of the United States is going to keep on borrowing indefinitely or is to place a limit on its own borrowings. If there is no limit, then faith in paper money will break down and regardless of what anybody in the government here says he wants to do, the printing presses will have to be turned on as the only...
...groups to be explained? The difference is of course in the starting point. The Administration economists appear to have accepted as their underlying premise the feasibility and necessity of a much larger measure of social control and to be approaching all problems with that in mind. How vital this difference in starting point is for the whole course of the subsequent analysis I can perhaps make clear in a couple of examples...
Unperturbed and backed by his wife, the eldest sister in China's famed "Soong Dynasty" (TIME, Dec. 11), Finance Minister Kung announced with stoical aplomb that he was "considering" a 28% upping of China's most vital and widely detested tax, that on salt. To collect this tax Dr. Kung's brother-in-law and predecessor as Finance Minister, famed T. V. Soong, organized a special army of "salt tax troops" and was believed to have screwed out of the peasantry the last copper cash that they would pay without rebellion...