Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saltonstalls," Mr. Shipton concludes, "have never sought great wealth. . . . Content with a comfortable fortune, they saw no virtue in leisure, but labored at the tasks they chose...
Interesting has been the information which Charles Lindbergh gathered and channeled to the U. S. through N. A. C. A. and air attachés abroad. It supplemented a wealth of similar data flooding in to the State, War and Navy Departments in Washington who were well aware that Germany had more fighting planes than any other nation. Charles Lindbergh's principal contribution to U. S. knowledge was that Germany, far ahead in mass-production of planes, is now prepared to invade the world's commercial air markets...
...Freshman Polo team open its season next Saturday at Avon Old Farms School, while the Varsity faces off against the Jay Vees in the Common-wealth Armory...
...these additions to our national wealth, additions resulting from public expenditures that are based upon increase of public debt, more 'wasteful' than the expenditures in the late twenties, based upon private debt, whereby billions of dollars were diverted to uncollectable foreign loans and to build at inflated prices huge skyscrapers, office buildings and apartment houses, many of which have never been sufficiently occupied to maintain the investment...
...personal side, Greville's diary is interesting chiefly for the light it throws on his curious motive for writing it. Despite His aristocratic connections,his wealth, his membership in the Privy Council, his welcome to the most exclusive social, political and intellectual circles, Greville believed himself shallow-minded, frivolous, dissipated. His sober diary was a means to improve his mind, a penance for his sins...