Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parity at least better than 5-5-3. If so, few doubted that she was mistaken in her guile. The U. S. delegates were not blind to the fact that the U. S., capable of building about seven battleships to Japan's one on the basis of national wealth, will gain relatively little economically and lose relatively much in naval power by yielding further to Japan, whereas Japan may lose much both economically and in naval power by competitive building. Whatever Japan's reason for sending a big delegation to London, it did not decrease the chances...
...With a wealth of material on hand for what he thinks will be the strongest team in years, Harold Uhlen, Varsity swimming coach, considers his chances of breaking Yale's long string of victories unusually good...
People often claim that Harvard prestige and wealth make for special privilege. It can be pointed out that Harvard has utilized no influence in this trial whatsoever; she did not even educate the Judge. Consequently, the responsibility for the sentence, which must seem like a joke to the public and a triumph to vested interests, rests solely with Judge Green, not with the College...
...surplus funds bid up stocks or real estate, but inflation in the generally accepted sense can come about only by increasing means of payment . . . faster than we can increase production. The volume and velocity of money must be related to the volume of actual and potential production of real wealth...
...What is meant [by talk of dangerous inflation] is not inflation . . . but a stock market inflation." Thus Governor Eccles dismissed the Market as being unrelated to the actual production of wealth, sniffed at apprehension over "speculative excesses...