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Word: wealth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...government financing he has clung to the theory that the people are more qualified than Washington bureaucrats to spend the nation's wealth. His formula: cut Government spending and reduce corporation taxes in order to encourage private initiative. He believes in using taxes for revenue only, not as a tool to control the economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: WHO'S WHO IN THE GOP: TAFT | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...have the greatest wealth of Presidential material in more than 40 years," Weeks opined, "and every as-years," Weeks opined, "and every aspirant is a better man than the presi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Weeks Dismisses MacArthur Hopes | 4/16/1948 | See Source »

Surprisingly, the readers did not miss the scandal. Explains one editor, "Fan book readers don't want to hear anything derogatory said about the star. They want the myth. . . . We are writing inverse statements of frustration. We paint beautiful pictures of love, excitement, wealth, prestige, security and glamor. . . . We give the reader a feeling of identification [with] the stylized intimacy of a movie star's existence. Every marriage we describe must have an idyllic, untarnished quality to it. If you want to keep on running stories about a star, you must strongly intimate that everything is just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Opinion Leaders | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Itabira is the name popularly given to Caué, and for two centuries its wealth has been a legend. Early colonists melted its ore into blunderbusses, horseshoes and crude plowshares. International bankers gambled with the concession during the early 1900s. But it was World War II that set shovels biting into Itabira's crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Magic Mountain | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

...right "That Winter" makes for absorbing reading, jumping from sections of tremendous flavor to impressions and episodes often mediocre. The plot centers upon Peter (his surname never appears) and his two fellow-careerist apartment-mates n Manhattan. Ted lost his arm overseas; shorn of idealism and faith, overwhelmed with wealth that is the one ingredient he needs least for happiness, he ultimately ends his life. Lew Cole has changed his Jewish name for the sake of armament in the competitive world of radio. Peter himself fights the false enticements of The Newsmagazine where he sells his soul for handsome office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Soldiers, Back From the War . . . | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

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