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...steadily cut down trading on margin until a year ago, when Chairman Eccles decided that inflation had reached "dangerous proportions." To brake the market, he put trading on a cash basis. Now, Marriner Eccles was finally recognizing what the collapse of the big bull market had foretold. Prices were too high and were bound to come down in short order. Last week, they were coming down fast (see Prices...
What the enduring meaning this development will have for either Harvard or Yale cannot be foretold today. What remains, supremely here and now, is the game. The holy of holies, which is Athens and Sparta, Rome and Carthage, and David and Golish all rolled into one, has been resumed. May it never again be interrupted...
...work of John Maynard Keynes had an importance transcending economic exploration or probility theory. A liberal of humanitarian principles, he foretold his future when he resigned his position as Treasure representative at the Versailles Conference that he might oppose the ridiculous economic burdens being placed upon a prostrate Germany. An acquaintance with his work shows a man who labored unceasingly to develop a method of escape for a stagnant society...
...Monday, August 6, we released the atomic bomb. Eight days later the official Jap surrender inaugurated world peace. All this was almost exactly foretold last April 7 (see cut) when my cartoon "Private Breger Abroad" was published in some 120 newspapers...
...wide up & across the Atlantic. And for six days U.S. meteorologists clocked its forward progress, studied its habits, and charted its course (see SCIENCE). When it hit North Carolina's ocean bulge on the seventh day and started up the Eastern Seaboard, ripping like a circular saw, they foretold its movements almost to the mile and hour...