“No grant of feudal privilege has ever equaled, for effortless return, that of the grandparent who bought and endowed his descendants with a thousandshares ofGeneral Motors or General Electric.”

Source: The New Industrial State (1967), Chapter XXXV, Section 3, p. 394

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