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...mind that these are only trends, and though this is the only way we can predict the future, other influences might develop which would ruin our conclusions. Marx, for example predicted the further degradation of the working man as the number of capitalists increased and Ricardo predicted that the drift of population would be towards the country. They were both wrong obviously...
...struggled to save as much essential equipment as possible, dragging their sledges by hand. Every time they reached the main supply depot, they found that it had drifted outward faster than they could move the supplies in. "It was actual blood-taste-in-the-mouth," Captain Riiser-Larsen later radioed the Hearstpapers, whose publisher was one of his sponsors. They "could have taken sufficient emergency ration and rushed for safety on the barrier side. But with the wind off the land, the dog floe might drift out any time, and we decided to stay where we were, eventually drift...
...last week was Frazier Jelke & Co.'s survey of investment trust holdings, made each year to spot the drift of common stock popularity. After examining 80 portfolios, the firm ventured: "Analysis . . . shows an increasing preference for dividend paying stocks and further elimination of public utility holding company issues. . . . Holdings of better oils and rails have increased . . . and commitments . . . in heavy industries have decreased...
Eight shabby sedans, each driven by a grim-faced man, each freighted with five pretty, nervous and very young women, dashed and slithered over the mountain road from Chile to Argentina, plowed with whining gears through deepening snow, finally bogged down in a great drift just beneath the towering statue of "The Christ of the Andes...
...Those readers whose subscriptions are two years or longer delinquent need look no farther for reasons for the paper's death. . . . Newer generations from Germany don't take the loss of a German language paper to heart. All recent comers read English and slowly drift away from the German...