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...Unfortunately, the fact that science and machinery open wholly new possibilities for good does not, in our unskilled hands, prevent their collateral consequences from being peculiarly dangerous; nor does it lessen the difficulty of maintaining social balance in the midst of rapid change. Unless we learn how to maintain our stability, the evil consequences of machinery may out-weigh the good...
...courses lie open to the government in this matter. Either it can continue its false economies and seriously disable the present system of education, prolonging the deflation period; or it can borrow enough to maintain the colleges and universities on a sensible basis, putting fewer men into the breadlines and more money into circulation, where it belongs...
...published though earnings for last year were stated to be $1,098,000. President Odium thinks cash is the thing and cash earns little or no return. As he has acquired investment portfolios, he has weeded out the less desirable securities. Thus he has managed not only to maintain his cash position but to build it to nearly two-fifths of all assets-a $20,000,000 war chest ready for new deals or the next bull market...
...General Brown, advocate of airline monopolies, had been urging E. A. T. to buy out Ludington. Negotiations last year got nowhere. Finally, the story goes, the Postmaster General threatened to give Ludington a mail contract unless E. A. T. bought. E. A. T. bought last week, announced it would maintain all Ludington schedules except Washington-Norfolk, which E. A. T. already served. Thus passed, as Cord's Century Lines passed a year ago, another of the "independents" into the Big Four of U. S. airlines...
...required some jubilation at Peary Lodge, Polar Year station midway up Greenland's west coast. University of Michigan & Pan American Airways maintain the post: 1) to cooperate with European agencies in studying world-wide weather conditions, 2) to determine whether the northern hemisphere is recovering from the last Ice Age or is beginning another Ice cycle, 3) to judge the wisdom of a northerly airplane service between the U. S. & Europe. University of Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless...