Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...artificial heat is essential for maintaining human life. . . . There are many contacts between batholitic intrusions and ancient sedimentary rocks which generally are the locations of valuable mineral deposits. No great mineral bonanzas have been discovered to date. However, no continent the size of Antarctica has failed to produce a wealth of mineral deposits...
...Saddle Mountain, at Wolf Creek, at Dutch Canyon, west and north of Portland, palls of smoke and ash hung over the rough country, thousands of men manned the lines with hoses, axes and bulldozers as the red tiger of the forests once more devoured Oregon's natural wealth...
...goods-whether food or cannon-which are exported to belligerents. Experience of the last great war shows that they might as well be burned or dumped at sea, for little if any real wealth is ever received in payment for them. They are paid for only with promises to pay or with gold, which is virtually as useless, so that war-born prosperity remains an illusion. Even after the war, if debtors try to pay by shipping goods, creditors commonly lock them out by tariffs...
...gives neutrals a choice between stimulation and stagnation. They can sit at home and count their losses while trade stagnates and costs of living mount. Or they can ride the crest of an economic wave, feeding and arming belligerents-making a gift offering of their wealth as a subsidy to war. They also suffer who do not fight...
Chief pillar of the Golden Age was wealth, not piety, and chief source of this wealth the lucrative trade-triangle-West Indian molasses, Newport rum, African slaves. Result: one of the largest groups of private mansions in New England. Through these fine houses from the Revolution to the present have passed nearly all the famed social arbiters and artists of U. S. history. Rev. Thomas Skinner sat for Telegraph Inventor-Painter Samuel F. B. Morse; National Academy President Daniel Huntington painted Bishop Henry C. Potter; Alexander James did Admiral Stephen B. Luce, who inaugurated modern naval training; George Peter Alexander...