Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White Book's wealth of hitherto unpublished material should be welcomed by future historians, who can use it to prove either side of the case...
Included in the discussion will be a study of the effects of war on international balance of payments, on the distribution of gold and on commercial policy; repercussions on agriculture; methods of finance in the war and post-war periods; effects of war upon the distribution of income and wealth; trade unionism, money and real wages and employment in war times; and, finally, transition to peace...
...Unto Seppänen's Sun and Storm (Bobbs-Merrill, $2.50) traces the rise of a Finnish peasant to wealth and power. Sombre, heavy, conscientious, its handicap is that too many sombre, heavy, conscientious peasant novels have preceded...
...room in which Count Csáky stood represented only a small part of the detailed workmanship and great wealth that had been poured into Hungary's impressive Houses of Parliament. Standing on the Rudolph Quay in Pest (i.e., on the left bank of the Danube, the flat half of Budapest), this 19th-Century, Gothic-style building ranks as one of the largest legislative palaces of the world. It cost $8,000,000, covers four-and-one-half acres, has a dome 315 feet high. It was intended, when built, to show Hungary's importance, but after World...
Result, in 1939: big U. S. incomes are taxed up to 75%. Within sight, if U. S. leveling tradition holds good, says Author Myers, is the time when taxation will have done for inherited wealth what the repeal of primogeniture and entail did for the great landed estates. In 1930 a Van Rensselaer heir died leaving...