Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Knickerbocker (Hearst) report that the German high command had salted huge fortunes away in foreign lands against the day of defeat (TIME, Oct. 2). The announcer called Knickerbocker direct ("Do you hear us, Mr. Knickerbocker?"), offered him, on behalf of Goebbels, a tenth of all the cached wealth he could locate. When he failed to reply in 36 hours, a sizzling Berlin announcer blurted: "The British Ministry of Lies has bought the well-known American journalist, Knickerbocker . . . the louse...
Wealthy estates brought riches to institutions, individuals. Steelmaster Charles Michael Schwab bequeathed the bulk of his unlisted wealth to his brother, Edward, his sister, Gertrude Barry, and the children of his late brother, Joseph. Genevieve Brady Macaulay, made a Papal Duchess for her philanthropy by Pope Pius XI, left $1,000,000 in cash to Husband William J. Babington Macaulay, Irish Minister...
...very likely, since English leaders must be frightened as never before in their centuries of bull-headed progress. There is every possibility-almost a probability-of English defeat. At the best, Britain can expect destruction of all her industrial concentrations and the loss of the tremendous store of invested wealth which she has been amassing ever since Drake brought home the Golden Hind. At the worst she can expect extreme political and economic humiliation. Peace is wisest...
Fascist Germany had the rebuilding of 15 years of Republican Germany to take advantage of when Fascists seized power; Poland's rulers inherited ruins. Communist Russia had immeasurably vaster resources to begin with, and her rulers had the total confiscated wealth of the nation. But when Poland was set up at the end of World War I the area it took over had lost...
...producer of crude oil, the world's third largest producer of zinc. She had rebuilt her steel industry to eighth largest in Europe, had laid 823 miles of railroads, built 6,750 hydroelectric plants. And although her impoverished peasantry constituted a problem that no intelligent Pole denied, farm wealth had steadily increased: Poland ranked fifth among the world's powers in horses, eighth in cattle, fifth in pigs...