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Raising its ugly head last week, avarice threw a bad scare into the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. The South reported to Washington that cotton planters, hungrily watching their product go to 10? per Ib. for the first time in two years, had agreed to destroy less than 6,000,000 acres of their current crop under the Domestic Allotment Plan. The Administration wanted 10,000,000 acres (estimated at 25% of the total yield) plowed under or left unplucked, for which it was prepared to pay "benefits" to be collected from a cotton processing tax as yet officially unannounced...
...Reform in issuing securities is advisable but new laws should take care not to destroy the means by which industry obtains long-term capital. If the machinery for floating capital issues is destroyed industry will not be able to repay its temporary loans, more bank failures will follow...
...polliwogs. He, Christopher William Coates, had also gone into the Army instead of to college, but had kept up his study of fish during the after years in which he was earning a living in the radio business. The discovery set Fishman Coates to thinking. If the phage destroyed bacteria in aquarium water. why shouldn't it destroy them in human infections...
...Germany would be ready without further ado to dissolve its whole military establishment and destroy the scanty remnant of arms left it if neighboring nations unreservedly do the same. . . . Germany is in the main agreed to accept a transitional period of five years for the establishment of its national security, in the expectation that after this period Germany's real equalization with other nations will occur. . . . The German Government sees in the English plan a possible basis for solution of this question...
...etra, they also light up the new. Never before have the young men had so good a right to clean up the debris of the past. . . . The old goes up in flames, the new shall be fashioned from the flame in our hearts. ... As you had the right to destroy the books, you had the duty to support the government. The fire signals to the entire world that the November revolutionaries have sunk to earth and a new spirit has arisen...