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...state of depression , France and Italy as coal customers have disappeared; for reparations coal from Germany and the coal from the now functioning Lens mines in the north of France supply all their needs. Furthermore, the use of oil, lignite and other low-value fuels is beginning seriously to affect coal consumption...
...will it affect politics ? It will probably lessen the political pressure to institute a grain-exporting corporation with governmental capital to dispose of our wheat surplus abroad. This year there will be no wheat surplus...
This does not mean that all true men should think alike. Men differ, must differ, and ought to differ; but that does not affect the momentous results of wrong opinions, or the imperative duty of thinking aright. Nor is it any excuse that other people think the same. It is quite as bad, and often worse, to think wrong with the majority as to be in the wrong alone. If truth were so easy to ascertain that all honest-minded people instinctively thought alike the duty to think aright would involve too little effort to need an exhortation. Life...
...righteousness we have faith I knew a man who made a rule when indignant to write a letter as strongly as he felt, then address if to himself and drop it into the mail. On receiving if the next morning he had an impression of the way it would affect the person for whom it was intended not a bad thing to do, if not literally at least in imagination, as a means of putting oneself in another's place...
...example in funding her U.S. debt and returning to the gold standard (TIME, May 11, 18) has borne its expected fruits among other European debtor countries, which are now hastening to set their financial affairs in order. As yet, this has not resulted in sufficiently definite actions to seriously affect U. S. business, but it promises to before...