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Everything depends upon the progressiveness of the management of the monopoly. Under a monopoly, all eggs are placed in a single basket, so far as the monopolized industry is concerned. Here the railroad analogy breaks down completely. Even if every railroad had a monopoly in the territory which it serves, there would still be many railroad companies. The danger of unprogressive management throughout the railroad industry is, therefore, slight. But in industry, the danger of unintelligent and ineffective management, the besetting weakness of a long continued monopoly, is too great to allow one, except as a last resort, to look...
...first appeal of her "Chantecler", as indeed it was of Rostand's, is to the eye and to the sense of the fantastic, the unusual, the surprising, behind it. The little yellow chicks are amusing to see; so is the hen putting her head out of the basket to utter wise saws; while the retriever snuffing over the wall and the mongrel dog pawing and growling in his straw are sure to please as quickly and generally as they did last evening. So, too, with the rabbits in the woods, the parade of cocks at the guinea hen's reception...
...instability of the atmosphere. The wind, temperature and humidity have been measured, but the wind currents are of special interest to aerial navigators. The wind currents differ greatly with the time of day and the height. Observations are made by sending up a rubber balloon which carries a basket containing instruments. As the balloon rises the hydrogen expands it until the balloon bursts, when the instruments fall to the ground. A height of eleven miles has been reached in this manner, a temperature of 111 degrees below zero, and a wind velocity of 101 miles an hour...
...first game of the scrub basketball series yesterday the Dead Beats defeated the Basket Bawlers by the score of 29 to 8. The game between the Four Flushers and the Subways was postponed. This afternoon at 3.30 the Little Cherubs will play the Floor Walkers, and at 8 o'clock this evening the Waltz Dreams will play the Sam Walters...
...first round of the scrub basketball series will begin today in the Hemenway Gymnasium. Fourteen teams have been entered and will play as nearly as possible according to the following schedule: Today--at 3.30, Basket Bawlers vs. Dead Beats; at 8.30, Four Flushers vs. Subways. Tomorrow--at 3.30. Little Cherubs vs. Floor Walkers; at 8.30, Waltz Dreams vs. Sam Walters. Thursday--at 3.30, Green Peas vs. No Names; at 8.00, Two-Steppers vs. Bromos. Friday--at 3.30, Nell Brinkley Girls vs. Hard Hitters. Men not assigned to any team report to A. L. Thayer sL., who has been appointed captain...