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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Virginia Shares Wealth...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...Virginia-Harvard football game in Charlottesville this fall, two Virginia students were overheard discussing a nearby Harvard man. "He doesn't look like a communist at all," said one, "except for his share-the - wealth policy toward our whiskey and women-folk...

Author: By William S. Fairfield, | Title: South, Mid-West, West Coast Distort University | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...wealth of the large corporations and that of all corporations should continue to increase for the next twenty years at its average annual . . . 1909 to 1929 rate, 79% of all corporate activity would be carried on by 200 corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Weakening Giants | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...shadowed by Brandeis' "curse of bigness" was based on a survey of 1,000 manufacturing corporations-the 200 biggest and 800 others, a cross section of their runners-up. Between them the 1,000 control over half of the nation's manufacturing wealth. From 1939 to 1945 their assets had grown by 50% but the rate of growth of the runners-up had far outstripped the growth of the giants (see chart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ECONOMY: Weakening Giants | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...conquest. That secret is a lyricism that extends the kingdom of the nightingale, diffuses everywhere the secret perfume of the rose. The home where this man's mother lived was distinguished from all the other red-brick and stucco houses in a shabby suburban street by the wealth of flowering bulbs, jonquil packed beside narcissus, crocus beside grape hyacinth, which crammed the bow-windows of the ground floor flat. . . . When the spring came, they made a truly German window. Loving this lovely Germany, her son joined the SS, which bled and died that there should be camps where starved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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