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...some hard realities. After its collapse last fall, the market edged up in February, fell again in May, then started up again. The strict followers of the Dow theory contended that, because the industrial average had failed to go any lower in May than it had last fall, the downward trend might be changing...
Slowly, with no trace of his cockney cockiness, Morrison, pale and ill at ease, took Britain to the edge of the abyss and made her look down. "If we cut imports too far," he said, "great [downward] adjustments become necessary in our production and in our whole standard of living. But we cannot indefinitely go on importing what we cannot pay for, and I must tell the House quite frankly that it may come to this-and a tragically bad day it would be for us, for Europe, and for the world's best hopes of prosperity...
...complete triumph of economic and social equality, but he wants it in the state and through the state power, through the dictatorship of a very strong and, so to say, despotic provisional government, that is, by the negation of liberty. . . . We want the reconstruction of society . . . not from above downward . . . but from below upwards...
...sharply to the inside and off the track, dug a deep track in the grass and shot back on to the brick. Behind him a bright orange racer spun out of control, turned two circles and crashed into the outside retaining wall. Oil from its wounded motor oozed downward across the speedway but there was no pace slackening; other cars splashed through the puddle. Within a few minutes, the loudspeakers announced that William ("Shorty") Cantlon, driver of the orange car, was dead...
Giant Trouble. Several managers in the National League suspect Rowe of throwing sweat balls. They can't prove it. Four weeks ago at the Polo Grounds, Schoolboy threw one that did a dipsy-doodle. It veered crazily downward the same way a knuckle ball does-and everybody knew that knucklers are not Schoolboy Rowe's specialty. The Giant batsman struck out by a foot. Manager Mel Ott rushed out of the dugout to protest; he demanded to see the ball...