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...turning back history to 1929, Judge Weinfeld set off some 1929-style reactions. The preferred stocks of Central States, which had long since shrunk to a nubbin, came suddenly to life. Overnight, the $7 preferred shot up from 22 to 35 a share, the $6 preferred from 4¾ to 12½, and even the common stock, deemed almost worthless, rose from 4? to 12?. In a backhand sort of way, the rise was a vote of confidence in Harrison Williams-that is, in his ability to pay the money, if he must...
...mean that it specifically fears a depression, as some aging New Dealers claim. The feeling is widespread that anyone who wants to work can find a decent job; the facts confirm that feeling (and the starting pay is better 'than ever). But youth's ambitions have shrunk. Few youngsters today want to mine diamonds in South Africa, ranch in Paraguay, climb Mount Everest, find a cure for cancer, sail around the world, or build an industrial empire. Some would like to own a small, independent business, but most want a good job with a big firm, and with...
Hazelnut Size. Said McNulty: the operation was a failure. The grafted kidney was not functioning and never had. It had shrunk, he said, to the size of a hazelnut. The reason, Dr. McNulty said, was that the donor's tissues were incompatible with Mrs. Tucker's. His statements were given to reporters, and one of them phoned Mrs. Tucker...
...loved it; she still loves it . . . An oppressed people has always merited its suffering; tyranny is the work of nations . . . However, it cannot be denied that this popular mania has become the principle of sublime actions. In this inhumane country, if society has denatured man it has not shrunk him . . . He is not good but he is not paltry...
...World Government is inevitable, either by agreement or by conquest, as the achievements of science have so shrunk the size of the earth . . . Let it not be said that it is visionary and impractical; the same chorus was heard in 1787-88, but the farsighted among our leaders, Hamilton, Jay and Madison, the first Federalists for instance, persevered, and achieved the system which we have in our country today. It can and must be done in the world today...