Word: wealth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jawaharlal Nehru, 56, Gandhi teammate in the fight for independence, drew a formal rebuke from some followers for contributing to a blood bank. His health, they protested, is "national wealth which should be preserved." He should really "abstain from such destructive sacrifices...
...Radical case: small business wanted normalcy, and Tamborini meant peace; big business was fed up with share-the-wealth decrees; some labor elements suspected Juan Perón's kept unions, well remembering how many workers the Strong Man had jailed. As for the election-timed 30% pay boost for labor (judged by some to have gained Peron a cool million votes), a taxi driver answered that one: "We earn more," he squawked, "but we spend more. It doesn't make sense...
...technique, in its wealth of new plants and in prestige, industry was never better equipped. It had performed superlatively in doing the first part of the job, reconverting back to 1939. Now it must convert...
...Islam, Prince of the Faithful, Master of the World and Custodian of the Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...fundamental choice is whether countries will struggle against each other for wealth and power, or work together for security and mutual advantage. . . . The experience of cooperation in the task of earning a living promotes both the habit and the techniques of common effort...