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...right and power to make and preserve the private fortune must be jealously guarded. . . . The body politic cannot flourish unless people are not only allowed but encouraged to accumulate and retain private wealth...
Ffadger Corgiladze, like other peasants of proved efficiency, was paid a piecework wage instead of a standard rate per week in this year of Russia's greatest need. Vigorous, patriotic Hadger toiled with other women workers through the rows of leathery green tea plants that flourish in Caucasian Georgia. Last week she had run up a startling record. Somehow she crammed the labor of 300 work days into one 24-hour period of tea-leaf picking. Her reward: 2,250 rubles (about $400). Hadger gave most of her small fortune, 2,000 rubles, to the Soviet War Fund...
...next few years, but after this war I can see a better future for us all: a great American civilization where young people will have opportunity not only to work but to create, where old people will find contentment and security, where the Arts, Science and Religion will flourish as never before. But I fear that America will miss this opportunity. This is because our political system is not working well. We have made great progress in everything in this country except politics. Today America's greatest business is government. But it is a business, particularly...
...rodents increase, so do rodent epidemics. Nevertheless, epidemics are too erratic to explain the periodic ebb & flow of rodent population. Field mice flourish in dry weather, suffer in wet weather. But mouse cycles recur regardless of weather cycles...
Mouse Harvests. Sometimes the mice cycles lead to cycles of disaster throughout nature. "Northward, beyond the line where crops will flourish," says Elton, "the mice themselves become a crop, harvested in turn by fox and trapper and trader." From the reports of the Hudson's Bay Company and of Labrador missionaries Elton has found that in the last century fox catches fluctuated in four-year cycles, one year after the cycles of voles in Labrador and lemmings in Ungava (subArctic Quebec...