Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this time he continued his passion for minuscule modeling. He liked dainty things. He modeled tiny little figures (generally with the aid of a reading glass) and studied chemistry and physics to try to discover again how the jewelers of the Renaissance were able to cast figures with such wealth of detail...
Technocracy. To theorists like Messrs. Rautenstrauch, Jones, Ackerman and Chase, technocracy is a serious effort to collate facts which may show whither industrial civilization is moving. To thousands of discontented technicians employed (or discharged) by oil. lumber, automotive and other industries whose wealth they envy, Technocracy is the hope of a new economic deal. To I. W. W.'s. with whom Howard Scott was once associated, Technocracy is a new lever against Capitalism. Each man sees in Technocracy what he wishes for and Howard Scott, Technocracy's spokesman, breathes fog upon their mirrors...
Technocracy presumes that all the wealth and functions of Society can be calculated in terms of energy unity?British Thermal Units, kilogramme calories, joules, ergs, footpounds, horsepower. Upon that presumption was started the "Energy Survey of North America," in which one man's time for eight hours is considered equal to 1,500,000 footpounds. Technocracy headquarters, which now has few cartographers at work, has energy charts of about 50 U. S. industries ready for display, talks about 300 charts too significant for revelation, promises 3,000 charts eventually...
...enforced continuance of a relation which has no true basis in mutual respect. . ." The delegates voted to delete "and often is." Liberal on the whole, the Council's creed further favored such things as unemployment insurance, collective bargaining, social planning, penal reform, shorter working hours, wider distribution of wealth, repudiation of war, "spiritual comfort and sympathy" to conscientious objectors, opposition to compulsory military training...
...Indoor Athletic Building pool at 3.30 o'clock. Muir has been grooming his men all week for this first match, and he hopes to repeat his victory of last year over the Engineers. Although but two of his squad have ever had any outside competitive experience, there is a wealth of material on hand, and Muir is planning to use as many as he can today to give them some experience...