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...pear infestation has now been reduced 75% or more. Writes Professor Ramaley: ". . . The scattered remaining plants are not a menace-indeed they are of value for breeding Cactoblastis. Areas of former dense prickly pear are now being used for crops, for dairying and for grazing. . . . [This] land will never revert to its previous useless state...
...Such a statement may seem to many blindly optimistic. To those who urge that our universities revert to the outlook of the Middle Ages it will appear not so much optimistic as outmoded and heretical...
...affairs of men these storms of thought have been gathering for years. All the freedoms won through the generations since the Magna Charta of the year 1215, and the Bill of Rights (1689), and the Declaration of Independence (1776) are now being attacked by thoughts and ways that revert to the old fairy tales, when rulers could have a man's head chopped off at the whisper of treason to the state...
...York City Government and $6,200,000 from the State. To get this fat participation, President Whalen contracted to give them any profits that might remain after bondholders were paid off. And when the fair is over, the reclaimed-dump site, including four of the fair buildings, will revert to the city as a park half again as large as Manhattan's famed Central Park and valued in the grandiloquent Whalen fashion at $100,000,000. New York State and City thus are guaranteed a certain tangible return on their money...
...compromise Mergenthaler's President Joseph T. Mackey proposed to put 10% (about $200,000) of his annual wage bill in escrow, the sum to revert to the company if it lost money next year, to go to the workers if a profit was earned. When young Mr. Carey's young deputy, William Mitchell, turned this down, New York labor mediators suggested that Mergenthaler continue to pay 95% of present wages, put 5% in escrow until September 1939. To this Messrs. Mackey and Mitchell last week consented. At fiscal year's end, an impartial arbitrator will go over...