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Biocracy likens the human body to the economic system of the world, bringing into account the manner in which the body throws away its waste products, and the way in which it is equipped with two kidneys, extra lung space and other excessive organs which leave a great margin of safety. Dr. Cannon offers a model of tested and reliable performance which, he states, the world may well copy in stabilizing its economic and social pattern...
...system comparable to the ordering of the various parts of the human body. It comprises several points, showing how the world might regulate itself in accordance with physiological teaching. For instance, as the body possesses two kidneys where one would do, the new economy should plan for a similar margin of safety. The lesson of science shows, too, that the organs are spendthrifts, throwing away sugar by the gallon when necessary; even so should the social system behave towards its unwieldy surpluses...
Fact remained that even if the public had packed all the seats of the Music Hall twice daily, the margin of profit, after taking out Roxy's $100,000 weekly overhead, would have been extremely small. Showmen recalled the old Hippodrome, last seat of spectacles. There one used to be able to witness such theatrical colossi as herds of performing elephants, tanks full of mermaidens, the siege of Port Arthur, the capture of Veracruz. Public apathy landed the spectacular old Hippodrome on the rocks in 1929. As holder of one of the largest individual stakes...
Tufts is conceded a slight margin over the Harvard team, having beaten the Lowell Textile squad 34-80 last Saturday. Harvard has thus far failed to win a game this year, bowing to Boston University, 22-19, and Princeton...
...Bull Durant fell out with Broker Block two years ago when his account was sold out. Early this year he sued for $378,000, claiming he loaned the stock as a favor to Broker Block. Broker Block curtly stated that Durant had been warned to put up more margin...