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Think what that means, you 90 per cent of last year's upperclassmen who are still tied to the apron strings of Mother Fortune! It means that the College Graduate, a hitherto highly exploited commodity that used to drug the market a hundred and fifty thousand strong every year, now has ten per cent more bargaining power! Instead of 150,000 young world-changers, all string-pulling, relative-bothering, contact-casting, desperately making appointments to impress 150 personnel managers, the situation will practically be reversed. And why? Because the national emergency has cut you down to 148,500 world-changers...
...effect of this escape was to make Argentines hopping mad at the German Embassy and all its works. Conservatives in the Chamber of Deputies hitherto had been leery of Investigator Damonte's work because it made political capital for the Radicals. Three days after Gottfried Sandstede's flight Raúl Damonte submitted a report signed by all members of his committee, including the Conservatives. Findings...
...everyone. Yet want and the fear of want took on a new power in a world that had the physical equipment for providing enough for everyone. "The deep and restless desire of the peoples of the earth is to establish, upon the ruins of the scarcity that has hitherto enslaved them, an economy of plenty...
...British Raj sighed and announced that Dr. Satya Pal, hitherto a vehement nationalist, resigned from Saint Gandhi's Congress and volunteered to tend British wounded...
...Only the urgent pleas of King Christian X, whom everybody loves, have hitherto prevented full-blast sabotage. The cowed Government of huge, old, Moses-bearded Premier Thorvald Stauning, who has been in office for twelve years, has sunk low in popular esteem...