Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ordinary commodity is silver. To half the world's population (chiefly the Orient) it represents money and wealth. To the other half of the world it is merely a useful metal like copper or nickel. The reason that the price of silver fell from over 50? in 1929 to around 25? at the first of this year is partly that some countries such as Russia and French Indo-China have melted up part of their silver money and sold it; partly it is that less silverware is being made...
...Henri Deterding of Royal Dutch-Shell and some economists argue that if the value of silver increases. India and China with their silver wealth will have greatly increased purchasing power. All of which is true, but others ask, "What will happen to the price of silver if India and China dump in the market some of their hoarded billions?" Hard times in the hinterlands have already brought silver back to the bazaars. The stock of silver at Shanghai reached the unheard of total of 322,000,000 oz. What will happen if the biggest buyers become the biggest sellers...
...Legislature. If the Senate does not make provision for the sufferers in the State and the Federal Government refuses to aid, I shall invoke the powers I hold and shall declare martial law. ... A lot of people who are now fighting [relief] measures because they happen to possess considerable wealth will be brought in by provost guard and be obliged to give up more than they would now. There is not going to be misery in this State if I can humanly prevent it. . . Unless the Federal and State governments act to insure against recurrence of the present situation...
Chicken thieves broke into Socialist Norman Thomas' chicken houses in Huntington. L. I., and took 50 of the 100 hens which Mrs. Thomas raises to supply eggs for her Manhattan tearoom. Socialist Thomas, who favors equitable distribution of wealth, put a stout lock on the chicken house...
...imagination. So it is with German B. Without Dr. Herrick the tremendous scope and perfect efficiency of the course is inconceivable; with him it remains an eighth wonder. Dr. Herrick is a born pedagog, inspiring, able to induce a desire for knowledge and to get results. He has a wealth of anecdotal and related information which makes the driest, application of Grimm's law or the third rule for the use of the subjunctive less grim, and the dullest passage of Immensee romantic and entrancing; still he tolerates few irrelevant digressions. His sympathy with his students is that...