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...restless days of the Revolution, Kentuck was a land of milk and honey to the struggling settlers of the Virginia back-woods. Only the most daring of hunters had been there. Such men as Boone, Harrod, and Logan, each had returned with glowing tales of boundless fields of cane, of the rich soil, and of the numberless deer and buffalo. Aroused by these reports, little groups of pioneers fought their way over the trace to establish communities in the new country. Kentuck was not, however, the Utopia of all men's dreams. The Indians held it unlucky and used...
...anything to say in the matter, gas the man with whom he walked the streets of Heidelburg. However, fellow students have fought each other in the past, and the thought of friendly hands across the sea has too often been used to cover a new armament program to arouse boundless enthusiasm now. Personal contact and friendship, if confined to educational circles alone, has not in the past and probably will not in the future shake the foundations of petty and selfish patriotism. Nevertheless, while supposedly enlightened nations are busily engaged in determining the size of future engines of destruction, these...
...hards (such as Yale's Irving Fisher) maintained, even after the Crash, that quotations had never become so weirdly out of touch with reality as prophets-after-the-event were quick to label them. Given a profound conviction that the future of U. S. industry was boundless, that there was no limit to the potential value of U. S. securities, where could the line be drawn between farsightedness and folly? Speculation is the shadow of industry thrown forward on the wall of the future. It had been thrown a long way forward during the late Bull Market, its size swollen...
...boundless grew the possibilities of profiteering, that the new Nationalist Government hastily drafted and enacted, last week, a drastic "Appreciation Tax" designed to lift some of the burden of wealth from profiteers...
...somewhat notorious as el pasado manana-"the country of tomorrow." A succession of get-rich-quick booms-during which immense numbers of Brazilians have actually gotten rich quickly-has not stabilized the national character or promoted the development of a pioneer class, so needed to develop Brazil's boundless resources. At first it was too easy to make a fortune out of sugar, then cacao, then cotton, gold, diamonds, rubber. When the rubber boom was raging up and down the Amazon (circa 1900) the rubber taxes collected by the states of Para and Amazonas (see Map) made their capitals...