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...Russian peasant or proletarian reasons that any Capitalist states which have not teamed up against their avowed enemy, the Comintern, must be managed by simpletons, and that therefore Soviet propagandists must be right in endlessly repeating that the Capitalist states have so teamed up. Last week this Soviet journalistic axiom cracked. When not all Capitalist countries but only two or three-namely, Germany, Japan and possibly Italy-were reliably disclosed last week to have made a pact against the Moscow Comintern, Soviet statesmen suddenly boiled over with an indignation they could scarcely have felt had they believed their own Communist...
Carloading for the whole year will probably not average the 750,000 per week supposedly needed to put the railroads on their feet. But the reasoning behind the axiom was demonstrated last week with the publication of the latest earnings for the railroads as a whole. Increased traffic boosted the net operating income of the 144 Class I U. S. railroads* from $42,000,000 in August 1935 to $64,000,000 in August 1936, a gain of more than 50%. For the first eight months of this year total operating net income was $364,000,000 as against...
That nothing in the universe moves faster than light is a fundamental axiom of modern physics. The velocity of light is accepted as "basic constant," is given the symbol c for mathematical notation, is counted as 2.9986X10 10 cm. sec.-1-or roughly...
This brings us to the second question-against whom is Germany defending herself? Incomprehensible as it may seem to M. Francon, the answer is France. Strangely enough, the Germans cannot follow the Gallic-Anglo-Saxon logic which makes it an axiom that, of the two nations, Germany will be the aggressor. They will even point to the little unpleasantness of 1924, when a defenseless frontier was crossed and the old experiment of wringing blood from a stone performed by this same French Army. If a reason such as was advanced then for the invasion of prostrate Germany suffices...
Geometry is not class-conscious. The pons asinorum is free to all comers and even the eternal triangle's points are true for either hemisphere. On such a Euclidean axiom James Hanley posits his latest diatribe, in novel form, against the race that calls itself human but shows itself English. Readers who fear the proletarian author even when he is writing about love can safely pocket their qualms: Author Hanley complains of nothing more subversive than the fact that stokers, too, have hearts and flea-bitten wenches can make them bleed...