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...CURRENT PRICES]. BIG CHINCHILLA STOCK SELLING POINT IS THE PROMISE TO TAKE UP BUYER'S OFFSPRING AS PRODUCT AT A BIG PRICE, WHICH OF COURSE CAN CONTINUE ONLY AS LONG AS FRESH SUCKERS ARE AVAILABLE. WHEN THIS STOPS, THE BUBBLE BURSTS AS IT DID EVENTUALLY WHEN SAME RACKET WAS PLAYED IN CANADA BEFORE...
...chat with Lincoln Biographer Carl Sandburg, who reported the President "looks like he's standing the racket well...
...German named Adolf Schickert, the abortion paste ballooned into a $300,000 business, enough to produce some 240,000 abortions (and nobody knows how many deaths) a year, before Food & Drug sent Schickert and four other paste producers to jail. That seemed to have ended the paste racket; reports of deaths due to the paste promptly declined. But last month Food & Drug's watchful inspectors got word. of a new paste menace, worriedly set out to trace the new outbreak to its source...
They are so busy here watching to see that they don't damage someone else's racket (polite English: vested interest), that they never manage to say anything genuine at all. Criticism, literary, music, etc., is largely a farce since the good old English full-throated invective has been driven underground by the lawyers. Shades of Steele, Addison, and Junius...
...ultimate solution, of course, will be to stamp out the gambling racket itself, but such a task is not one to be accomplished over night, and more immediate preventive measures are urgent. On the other hand, if gamblers were given a completely free rein they would soon succeed in putting themselves out of business by their unchecked bribery, which might quickly reduce all professional sports to the level of professional wrestling, upon which, for some reason, few bets are taken...