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...tell his admiring students what has happened to the U. S. in the last two decades: "There has been an obvious retrogression.... In circumstances where loyalty to high idealism was imperative, we as individuals and as a people have compromised with expediency ... and amid the confusion resulting from unrest of the spirit we have sought surcease from concern in new dissipations and in more self-indulgence...
Long ago the idea took root that Earth's face is squeezed and wrinkled by the contraction of cooling, but this is no longer regarded as the sole cause of unrest. A half-century ago. Dr. Watts recalled, Suess of Austria realized from geological evidence that the sea had washed back & forth on the continents in great longtime pulses, but he could not explain the underlying mechanism. After radioactivity was discovered, Joly of England and others hit on the concept of thermal pulsation: radioactivity in the solid, or nearly solid, sub-crust of Earth causes heat to be stored...
...think of how much they work in their concentration on how much they earn, the seamen answered with a roar of "Oui!"', rushed back to their ships which sailed with all speed from Havre, while the French Cabinet announced Depression-busting decrees (see col. 3). General grumbling and unrest in French ports last week, with some rioting and shouts of "Hang Laval!" at Cherbourg, showed that the Premier was acting none too soon...
...broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5¢ in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public criticism and political skulduggery, the Canadian Wheat Pool was about to unload its holdings on the world. If the job was executed recklessly, then world wheat was in for a grand smash...
...annual income. In other words, while the rate for a man with a $6,000 income is double the rate for one with a $4,000 income, a man having a $5,000,000 annual income pays the same rate as one whose income is $1,000,000. Social unrest and a deepening sense of unfairness are dangers to our national life which we must minimize by rigorous methods...