Word: welled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agents have added 100 billions of dollars to the wealth of the United States." The above appears in TIME, May 6, contributed by A. H. Bennell, and has deprived me of breath for the moment. Mr. Bennell may be a good underwriter, but as an economist he is simply?well, he isn't. Life insurance agents have not added the 100 billionth part of one cent to the wealth of the U. S. What they have done is simply to gather up, at enormous expense, the tokens of wealth created by others, pile it up in a heap, dole...
...Runner: "Well, it just happens they aren't there when we get across...
Minister Euler in the prow of the rumrunner with the U. S. Customs House ahead: "Do you often cross in the daytime as well as at night...
...immediate effect of the agreement, if it is ratified by the governments concerned, will make for the economic benefit of all of them by disposing of the uncertainty that has featured the question of reparations ever since the war. But students of history may well be cynical of the permanent nature of such an agreement. With the payments stretching over sixty years, there is every chance that before their completion the political relations of the European powers will be vastly different to their condition now. Modern Europe has never passed sixty years without a major conflict, and it is unlikely...
...information. But they should all be directed and coordinated by one man, perhaps with assistants, whose office should be a clearing-house and permanent center. It seems essential that this man be impartial, with no axe to grind as in the case of a company representative. He should be well informed, at least having access through other persons to information on any technical subject. He should be permanent and always accessible, to keep him in contact with both students and men capable of giving advice. It does not seem absolutely essential, however, either that he conduct research or that...