Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Is Your America All About?" blazed the copy, adding apologetically, "You probably know every single fact in this advertisement." Most people indeed did. A box headed ''You are a stockholder in the United States. Inc." related that the country had produced three times as much wealth since the Revolution as the entire world had produced prior to 1776; that the U. S. worker's share of the national in come had risen from 38? in 1850 to 65? in 1929; that there were 44,000,000 savings accounts in the U. S. even in Depression. These...
...somewhat like an old-fashioned geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster catch declined...
From a financial point of view alone, the endowment fund returns as an annual reinvestment in the University a sum nearly corresponding to the total of the students' payments. Expenditures in time and money are thus admittedly counterbalanced by tremendous gains, intellectual and human. A wealth of memories crowds all thought of "what might have been" from the minds of pessimists who argue that college is not worth while...
...lived on not because it had great wealth, for Harvard has been again and again most desperately poor. It has had, of course, no army, no material force of any kind to make it prevail. It has not been the ward of a great sovereign or of a munificent state. Yet Harvard has outlasted all the governments which existed when it was founded, and the social orders through which mankind has moved in three hundred years. It has had only the tradition of learning which its founders carried into the New World from the more ancient universities of Europe...
This glorious sensation of sudden riches could not help being felt in high places. Fortnight ago, President Manuel Quezon with more moderation than most of his compatriots put his blessing on the boom: "In their mines the Philippines have a storage of great wealth. If reports of the Bureau of Science are justified I believe that our country is one of the richest in the world...